Studies show that African-Americans often receive lower quality care than white Americans. David R. Williams, a Harvard Professor of Public Health who has studied this issue in the US for two decades, offers one reason for why this happens: unconscious bias. In a new eight-part video series, “Why Health Equity Matters,” Williams sits down with Dr. Don Berwick, IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, to explain what implicit bias is and how health care providers can reduce it. Watch the series, lead a discussion in your Chapter or classroom, and learn even more in our course TA 102: Improving Health Equity (available for free to everyone through March).

Twenty major US corporations announced this month that they will band together in an effort to transform corporate health care benefits — but will this coalition of employers, the “Health Transformation Alliance,” work? IHI co-authors of a new piece in Harvard Business Review say five strategies will be key in achieving IHI’s Triple Aim (better care for individuals, better health for populations, and lower per capita cost). “Using collective power as leverage often is not sufficient to drive meaningful change,” they write. Learn more in TA 101: Introduction to Population Health.

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