Team Profile Summary

Disparities in health outcomes across the City of Boston are prevalent. While many public and non-profit agencies are currently working to address health disparities in Boston, comprehensive and multi-level strategies supported by a multi-year commitment that addresses the social determinants of health are necessary to eliminate health and health care disparities and to achieve health equity.

Team Objectives

• Prioritizing Health Equity
• Develop action plan to address health inequities in Boston
• Establish training center to expand health equity strategies across Boston and New England
• Raising Public Awareness
• Develop a city-wide Health Equity Campaign
• Legislative, Policy and Advocacy Development Data Collection
• Regulation Analyze hospital and health center data
• Establish a Health Equity
• Committee to review data and develop recommendations
• Train all Boston CHCs in the collection of data
• BPHC Anti-Racism Work
• Establish an Anti-Racism Advisory Committee
• Establish recommendations for policy, systems and process changes BPHC Health Equity Grants
• Continue to fund equity grants to community-based, faith-based and health organizations in Boston around top funding priority areas: Neighborhood Investment, Building Health Equity, Patient Education and Navigation, Workforce Diversity and Chronic Disease Prevention and Intervention.
• BPHC Health Equity Training Center
• Grantees receiving comprehensive training (undoing-racism, cultural competency, social determinants of health, and health equity)

For more information and to become involved, please contact:
Team Lead: Meghan Patterson, MPH, Director – Disparities Project, BPHC
Email: mpatterson@bphc.org
Phone: (617) 534 - 2675