AMA Center for Health Equity

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AMA’s Center for Health Equity mission and guiding principles

Learn about the AMA’s Center for Health Equity mission and guiding principles for embedding health equity within the association and the medical profession.

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Health Equity

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For this Tulane doctor, advancing health equity has global focus

Learn how internist-pediatrician Anjali Niyogi, MD, MPH, has used her skills to help patients in New Orleans and around the world.

Avani K. Patel, MD

Health Equity

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This resident psychiatrist stakes her claim as physician leader

AMA member Avani K. Patel, MD, MHA, has faced many biases throughout her journey in medicine. But they have only pushed her to accomplish even more.  

African-American girl smiles while a doctor stands behind her

Health Equity

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10 MIN READ

Q&A: A safety-net physician discovers her power to help patients

Amna Khan, MD, became a pediatrician to work at the intersection of social justice and medicine. Learn about a fellowship that’s giving her a boost.

Empty emergency room hospital bed

Health Equity

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Q&A: Why strained EDs can’t overlook social factors driving health

Dhara Amin, MD, leads ED quality efforts at Chicago’s Cook County Health. The Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship aids her work on health equity.

Hannibal Person, MD

Health Equity

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Q&A: This pediatrician is confronting inequities in GI care

Gastrointestinal (GI) problems in children of color are too often dismissed. Learn how pediatrician Hannibal Person, MD, is working to change that.

Richard Silvera, MD

Health Equity

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Q&A: Physician advocacy for patients with HIV gets personal

Advocacy must be everywhere, because health inequities are everywhere, says Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellow Richard Silvera, MD, MPH. Learn more.

AMA Center for Health Equity

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Medical Justice in Advocacy fellows

Find information about the current cohort of the AMA-SHLI Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship.

Delegates at the 2022 Interim Meeting

Interim Meeting

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Highlights from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

Catch up with the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 12–15.

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