Health Equity Resources
Explore resources to help achieve equity in your practice.
How to Play a Crucial Role in Health Equity
16 January 2024
The January 2024 ACR Bulletin discusses how Physicians can transform their approach to advancing healthcare through teaching and building new bonds, says one radiologist who has done just that.
Radiology Health Equity Coalition Community of Practice - Disparities in Uterine Fibroid Treatment - On Demand
31 July 2023
Watch Pratik Shukla, MD, Interventional Radiologist at Rutgers University discuss his research and service projects surrounding poor access to healthcare for the underserved population, particularly concerning access to uterine fibroid embolization (UFE).
Race Correction and the X-Ray Machine — The Controversy over Increased Radiation Doses for Black Americans in 1968
20 January 2023
On May 23, 1968, Howard Goldman, director of the New York Bureau of X-Ray Technology, acknowledged that x-ray technicians routinely exposed Black patients to doses of radiation that were higher than those White patients received.
Invited Commentary: From Unacceptable to Intolerable
20 January 2023
In an address to the Medical Committee for Human Rights on March 25, 1966, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, stated the following: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”
How We Got Here: The Legacy of Anti-Black Discrimination in Radiology
20 January 2023
Current disparities in the access to diagnostic imaging for Black patients and the underrepresentation of Black physicians in radiology, relative to their representation in the general U.S. population, reflect contemporary consequences of historical anti-Black discrimination.
ACR Bulletin - August 2022 - Health Equity Edition
28 July 2022
Special Health Equity Edition of the ACR Bulletin, August 2022
Webinar Series Breaking Imaging Barriers
14 July 2022
Webinar Series: Breaking Imaging Barriers - A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Health Equity in Medical Imaging
Analysis of a Patient-Centered Ridesharing Program to Overcome Transportation Barriers in Access to Advanced Imaging Care
03 November 2021
This presentation highlights research to reduce missed care opportunities due to transportation issues.
Understanding and Pursuing Health Equity: Opportunities to Take Action
27 October 2021
This webinar recording on health equity and radiology is designed to provide radiologists with insight on how they can take action to ensure quality care for all members of their communities.