In your neighborhood: a community-based approach to health equity in the US

Can a pharmaceutical company help close the racial healthcare gap in the US? Patrice Matchaba thinks so. His plans involve an initiative designed to bring about foundational change by tapping into the potential of underserved communities.

“We need to engage with the people whose problem we want to help solve, not create solutions for them,” says Matchaba, President of the Novartis US Foundation and Head of US Corporate Responsibility at Novartis.

Matchaba spent most of his two-decade career at Novartis steering experimental medicines through the drug development pipeline. He is …

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Beacon of Hope: Addressing health disparities through holistic community-based collective action

Black/African Americans have endured education and health disparities in the United States (US) for four centuries. Access to basic education was illegal for Black/African Americans in America, and health care where it existed was often denied. Dating back to the severe inequalities imposed by slavery, evidence suggests that the public health system in the US subsequently developed in ways that have sustained racially divided health care.1

Well-documented examples of disenfranchisement of Black/African Americans in health and science include the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in …

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Novartis pledges 10-year commitment with Morehouse School of Medicine, 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities, Medical Schools and other leading organizations to co-create effective, measurable solutions for health equity

  • Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation to join forces with Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Morehouse School of Medicine, 26 other Historically Black Colleges, Universities and Medical Schools and others to address root causes of disparities in health and education
  • This collaboration will create actionable solutions to target the systemic racism that drives inequitable health outcomes and work together for health equity progress through greater diversity, equity and inclusion across the research and development ecosystem …
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