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Ashcraft LE, Cabrera KI, Lane-Fall MB, South EC. Leveraging Implementation Science to Advance Environmental Justice Research and Achieve Health Equity through Neighborhood and Policy Interventions. Annual review of public health. 2024 May 1; 45(1):89-108.
Juckett LA, Owolabi M, Gustavson AM, Ifejika NL. Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity in Stroke Rehabilitation. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024 Apr 2; 13(7):e031311.
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Blosnich JR. Costs of (In)visibility: Issues of Disclosure and Data for Health Equity Research with Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans. Health equity. 2023 May 26; 7(1):338-341.
Jones PD, Lai JC, Bajaj JS, Kanwal F. Actionable Solutions to Achieve Health Equity in Chronic Liver Disease. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. 2023 Jul 1; 21(8):1992-2000.
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Washington DL, Yuan A, Toyama JA, Jackson LB, Kasom DR, Canning MT, Steers WN. National Veteran Health Equity Report 2021 Condensed Report. Focus on Veterans Health Administration Patient Experience and Health Care Quality. Washington, DC: Office of Health Equity Veterans Health Administration; 2022 Sep 1. 232 p.
Boulware LE, Mohottige D, Maciejewski ML. Race-Free Estimation of Kidney Function: Clearing the Path Toward Kidney Health Equity. JAMA. 2022 Jun 21; 327(23):2289-2291.
Essien UR, Ly DP, Jena AB. Op-Ed: Why affirmative action bans hurt health equity. Los Angeles Times. 2022 May 3: Opinion: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-03/op-ed-why-affirmative-action-bans-hurt-health-equity.
Washington DL, Yuan A, Toyama JA, Lopez L, Jeong S, Jackson LB, Kasom DR, Canning MT, Steers WN. National Veteran Health Equity Report 2021 - Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Veteran Chartbook. Focus on Veterans Health Administration Patient Experience and Health Care Quality. Washington, DC: Office of Health Equity Veterans Health Administration; 2022 May 1. 42 p.
Moy E, Hausmann LRM, Clancy CM. From HRO to HERO: Making Health Equity a Core System Capability. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2022 Jan 1; 37(1):81-83.
Chary AN, Naik AD, Kennedy M. Visitor policies and health equity in emergency care of older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2022 Feb 1; 70(2):376-378.
Dixon BE, Grannis SJ, Lembcke L, Roberts A, Embi PJ. The COVID-19 health equity twindemic: Statewide epidemiologic trends of SARS-CoV-2 outcomes among racial minorities and in rural America. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences [Preprint]. 2021 Mar 6; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252861.
Musselwhite LW, May FP, Salem ME, Mitchell EP. Colorectal Cancer: In the Pursuit of Health Equity. American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting. 2021 Mar 1; 41:108-117.
Jackson-Triche ME, Unützer J, Wells KB. Achieving Mental Health Equity: Collaborative Care. The Psychiatric clinics of North America. 2020 Sep 1; 43(3):501-510.
Ifidon AM, Agbalajobi O, Essien UR. Improving Racial and Ethnic Minority Representation in Cardiovascular Disease Trials to Advance Health Equity. JAMA cardiology. 2020 May 1; 5(5):611.
Clancy C, Moy E, Washington DL, Williams K, Bryant M. Achieving Health Equity for America's Minority Veterans: Briefing before the US House of Representatives Veteran Affairs Subcommittee on Health Oversight Hearing; 2020 Feb 11; Washington, DC.
Sterling MR, Echeverría SE, Commodore-Mensah Y, Breland JY, Nunez-Smith M. Health Equity and Implementation Science in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep-Related Research: Emerging Themes From the 2018 Saunders-Watkins Leadership Workshop. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2019 Oct 1; 12(10):e005586.
Milburn NG, Hamilton AB, Lopez S, Wyatt GE. Mentoring the next generation of behavioral health scientists to promote health equity. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 2019 Jan 1; 89(3):369-377.
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Uchendu US, Washington DL, Yano EM. Release of the Inaugural VHA National Veteran Health Equity Report. Focus on Health Equity and Action [Cyberseminar]. Office of Health Equity. 2016 Oct 27.
Gebregziabher MG. Focus on Health Equity and Action: Race/Ethnicity Data Collection in the Veterans Health Administration. Focus on Health Equity and Action [Cyberseminar]. Office Of Health Equity/VA HEROIC. 2016 Apr 28.
Uchendu U, Hausmann LR. Focus On Health Equity and Action: Findings From the VISN4 Hypertension Racial Disparities Quality Improvement Project. [Cyberseminar]. 2016 Jan 21.
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Spoont MR, Nelson DB, Murdoch M, Sayer NA, Nugent SM, Rector TS, Westermeyer J. Recommendations to VHA leadership to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in VHA Treatment of PTSD: Prepared for the Office of Health Equity and Performance. Paper presented at: VA Office of Health Equity and Performance Meeting; 2015 Jan 30; Washington, DC.
Atkins D, Kilbourne A, Lipson L. Health equity research in the Veterans Health Administration: we've come far but aren't there yet. American journal of public health. 2014 Sep 1; 104 Suppl 4:S525-6.
Ibrahim SA, Egede LE, Uchendu US, Fine MJ. The struggle for health equity: the sustained effort by the VA Healthcare System. American journal of public health. 2014 Sep 1; 104 Suppl 4:S514-6.
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Fine MJ. Racial and ethnic disparities in satisfaction with care: VA’s commitment to health equity. Presented at: Congressional Black Caucus Spring Health Braintrust and National Minority Quality Forum Annual Health Disparities Leadership Summit; 2011 Apr 11; Washington, DC.
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Ibrahim SA, Thomas SB, Fine MJ. Achieving health equity: an incremental journey [invited editorial]. [Editorial]. American journal of public health. 2003 Oct 1; 93(10):1619-1621.