Blog Category: Health Equity

Building Trust, Creating Home: Lessons from a Community Clinic

Dr. Hijab Zubairi, MD, MPH, Co-Director of the Health Equity and Advocacy Pathway at UCLA, identified a problem: a lack of housing can create distrust between unhoused people and medical professionals due to distance and prior trauma. Her response, a medical home—a clinic that provides urgent and primary care services for the unhoused—provides a crucial… Read more »

Building Trust & Equity in Internal Medicine: One Brooklyn Health

In April, our team had the opportunity to visit One Brooklyn Health (OBH) and witness firsthand how they are training residents to provide patient-centered and responsive care. Supported by the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity program, the project team has worked with community partners and a teaching and advisory team to develop a thoughtful health… Read more »

Care that Comes to You: Building Trust Through Health Pop-up Clinics

Building trust with communities that have historically had reason to distrust the health care system can be a perplexing task: Where to start? With a grant through the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program, Claudia Fotzeu Toukam, MD, MPH, FACP and Darra Edwards, PharmD, MSOL/HCM have led an innovative initiative designed to provide health… Read more »

Request for Letters of Intent | Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program

The ABIM Foundation and the American Board of Internal Medicine are focused on improving the trustworthiness of the health care system. As part of this focus, the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program—a $320,000 initiative to support projects that: are led by individuals or groups of residents and faculty in internal medicine education and… Read more »

The Promise of Trust in Medical Education

How can clinicians rebuild trust in marginalized communities? That’s the question Dr. Julie Venci, a primary care physician at Denver Health and Med-Peds Program Director at the University of Colorado, set out to address. Through a grant from the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity grant program, she collaborated with health equity educators and leaders to… Read more »