Health Equity Resources
Explore resources to help achieve equity in your practice.
NLCRT Summit - Accelerating Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening
22 July 2022
Video interviews and discussion from the July 2022 NLCRT Summit - Accelerating Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening
Breaking Imaging Barriers - Voice of Radiology Blog
22 July 2022
Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, American College of Radiology® member and Radiology Health Equity Coalition Mobilization Team Representative for the American Board of Radiology, where he serves as Executive Director, contributed this piece.
Webinar Series Breaking Imaging Barriers
14 July 2022
Webinar Series: Breaking Imaging Barriers - A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Health Equity in Medical Imaging
Diversifying Clinical Research to Improve Health Equity
07 June 2022
Improving representation in clinical research can be done through a recruitment strategy that includes direct outreach to facilities in underserved communities.
Lack of Equitable Representation in Clinical Trials Compounds Disparities in Health
01 June 2022
A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for urgent actions by federal agencies, Congress, journals, and others to improve the representation of racial and ethnic minority groups and other underrepresented populations in clinical trials and research.
Health Care Disparities in Radiology - A Review of the Current Literature
01 June 2022
Health care disparities exist in all medical specialties, including radiology. Raising awareness of established health care disparities is a critical component of radiology’s efforts to mitigate disparities.
Welcoming Spaces - Treating Your LGBTQ-Plus Patient
11 April 2022
The National LGBT Cancer Network is proud to launch Welcoming Spaces: Treating Your LGBTQ+ Patient, our updated and expanded LGBTQ+ Cultural Humility training designed specifically for healthcare professionals.
A Force for Good
08 April 2022
A radiologist is addressing food insecurity and patient advocacy — one tweet at a time.
Antiracism intervention reduces disparities in timely lung cancer surgery
08 April 2022
The racial gap in timely surgery between Black and white patients with early-stage lung cancer improved after an antiracism intervention, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Diversifying Clinical Research to Improve Health Equity
08 April 2022
An important and often overlooked mechanism to improve health equity is making clinical research more inclusive to ensure that potential improvements are realized across all population groups.
Mortality Disparity by Race and Ethnicity Among Patients With Breast Cancer
08 April 2022
Are there racial and ethnic disparities in the association of Medicaid expansion with survival among patients with de novo stage IV breast cancer?
Recruitment of Women from Diverse Backgrounds is Key to Success
31 March 2022
The TMIST trial is more than halfway to its recruiting goal of 128,905 participants with more than 20 percent of participants in the US being Black.
Patients are at the heart of changing social determinants of health
31 March 2022
Population health management (PHM) can be confusing at times, with many different definitions put forth in the literature. Upon closer inspection, the differences in the various descriptions really reflect differences in emphasis in the components of population health.
Improving Access for Women
31 March 2022
A Florida nonprofit connects women to medical and social services to help them overcome barriers to care.
Rural Outreach
31 March 2022
How can radiologists work to improve access to imaging services in rural America?