Redesigning the Broken U.S. Health System: The Nursing Profession’s Role in Ending Unequal Treatment
Webinar Details
In June 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All—a follow-up to the original Unequal Treatment report from 2003. Ending Unequal Treatment offers a comprehensive, deeply researched, evidence-based review of health and health inequities within the US healthcare system. The report explores the barriers that continue to undermine efforts to achieve more equitable healthcare, including behavioral health, and presents recommendations for future actions that would achieve a more effective and sustained approach to addressing the problem, with implications for the nursing profession. This presentation will provide an overview of the Ending Unequal Treatment report and highlight what the findings mean for nurses and other health professionals, including their role in eliminating health and healthcare inequities.
Objectives:
- Review and summarize the current state of healthcare and health inequities in the U.S., the evolving political moment, and the role of nurses and other healthcare professionals in responding to these uncertain times.
- Identify enduring, fundamental truths for the nursing profession that can guide efforts to eliminate health inequities.
- Integrate social and clinical care principles with key strategies to advance an interdisciplinary health workforce, policy advocacy, and systems change to end unequal treatment.
This Webinar is hosted by Jonas Nursing.
Speaker
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MSN, MPH, MS, MSW, BS, RN, ANP-BC, LCSW, PMHNP-BC, FAAN
Executive Director
Institute for Policy Solutions
Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is the Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions and the Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. He is also the founding director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH). Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a nurse practitioner, dually licensed in adult health and psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Widely regarded as a scholar and leader in SDOH and in developing, evaluating, and translating nurse-driven, community-based interventions, his research has been funded for two decades by NIH, CDC, and various federal agencies. His work has been published in leading scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The British Medical Journal, Nature Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and the American Journal of Public Health.
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has served as a member of the ad hoc NASEM Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare; the NASEM Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society; and the board of UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino-focused civil rights organization. He also serves on the Latino Commission on AIDS Board of Directors as vice chair and as the chair of the board of directors for Power to Decide.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to all.
Continuing Education Credits
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.