IFDHE blog: Juneteenth serves as a reminder to stay the course on health equity issues

In a blog about the third year of Juneteenth’s acknowledgement as a national holiday, Joy A. Lewis, AHA’s senior vice president for health equity strategies and executive director of the AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, discusses the importance of the holiday becoming established as a day of scholarship and education, and an opportunity for hospitals and health systems to educate all employees on health equity causes.