Pulitzer Prize winner tapped for opening keynote address at 2023 Accelerating Health Equity Conference
Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author and National Humanities Medal recipient, will give the opening keynote address at AHA’s 2023 Accelerating Health Equity Conference, which will be held May 16-18 in Minneapolis. Wilkerson, the author of The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is a gifted storyteller who unpacks the implications of enforcing hierarchy in our social systems, industries and economy. Learn more about the conference here.
Related News Articles
Headline
The Department of Health and Human Services and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, a public-private partnership whose members include the AHA,…
Blog
Since 2018, Black Maternal Health Week has been a national observance from April 11–17. This annual observance was created by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance…
Headline
The Office of Management and Budget March 28 released its final updated standards for Federal agencies on maintaining, collecting and presenting data on race…
Blog
My paternal grandmother was born in 1913 as the youngest of five children and the only girl. She had three sons and no daughters. When I arrived, I was the…
Blog
I was raised by my mother, who was a nurse, and an elder sister, who both prioritized education. During a visit to Kentucky State University, I was inspired to…
Headline
The AHA and other founding members of the Common Health Coalition March 13 committed to action in four priority areas: coordination between health care and…