Health Equity: “We focus on outcomes and disparities to improve health.” ft. Latoya Hill, KFF

Presented under KZbin’s Health Equity Incubator (THE-IQ), a program to tackle health equity through information quality, this video series is produced by KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) with The Loveland Foundation, National Birth Equity Collaborative and Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Through the voices of the partner organizations, the videos elevate a conversation about health equity and build understanding about the factors that impact health and well-being.
KFF is an endowed, nonprofit organization filling the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues; no affiliation to Kaiser Permanente.
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Transcript:
My background is as a maternal and child health epidemiologist. We use data to answer questions like who is getting sick, where they live geographically, how the occurrence of those illnesses change over time and what exposures can cause or prevent those illnesses. We focus on the outcomes and disparities related to maternal and infant health outcomes in an effort to improve the health of women, children and families. The thing that changed the trajectory of my career was when I learned that Black women with a college degree had worse birth outcomes than White women who didn't finish high school. And that was me, like I'm that Black woman.