NKF keynote speaker discusses racial disparities, how to eliminate these in health care

BOSTON — The keynote speaker at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings discussed racial disparities in the United States and how physicians can change their practices and political behavior to achieve health equity.

“COVID-19 had a huge impact on the United States population in general, but Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and Pacific Islanders have had an age-adjusted death rate that is at least twice as high as that of whites,” David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, professor at Harvard University, said during his presentation. Read the full story in Healio here.