Health equity is achieved when all people can attain the highest level of health that they desire, regardless of who they are, where they live, or their experience with health, social, or educational systems. Achieving health equity requires designing systems that are accessible, inclusive, and supportive environments that promote health and well-being for everyone.
Digital health equity is a subset of health equity and asserts that individuals and communities must be able to locate, access, interpret, and use health information or health care through technology and other digital tools.
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To build upon and institutionalize this growing momentum in the health informatics field, the Health and Healthcare Equity Working Group is dedicated to bringing together health informaticists to learn, share, and collaborate on research and professional practice on health equity and the social determinants of health. This working group provides an ongoing infrastructure for networking, training, exchange and dissemination of relevant scholarship, policy and practice.
Together, members of this group advocate for health equity’s centrality to the wider discipline of health informatics, while building specialized knowledge and expertise about the social determinants of health, community-engaged research and practice, and how informatics can address—or worsen— health and healthcare disparities.
Leadership
Tiffany Veinot, PhD
Anthony Rios, PhD
CHERYL GIVENS, MD