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Welcome to the Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) website, and thank you for your interest in our work. The DSC is dedicated to the development and im plementation of strategies that advance policy and practice to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care. The Disparities Solutions Center will achieve this mission by:

  • Serving as a change agent by developing new research and translating innovative research findings into policy and practice

  • Developing and evaluating customized policy and practice solutions for health care providers, insurers, educators, community organizations, and other stakeholders

  • Providing education and leadership training to expand the community of skilled individuals dedicated to eliminating health care disparities

Our goal is to move beyond research and begin to take action—by developing and disseminating models for identifying and addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care nationally, regionally, and locally. Through our work, we hope to move all healthcare stakeholders one step forward – and closer to eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in healthcare.

Composed of a multidisciplinary group of health policy experts, health services researchers and physicians, the DSC opened in July of 2005 with initial funding from Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare System. It is housed within the MGH Institute for Health Policy and affiliated with MGH and Harvard Medical School’s Department of Medicine.

For more information on how the DSC is working to assure equitable, high quality health care for all, please browse through our website. Thank you.

Recent Updates from the DSC

Announcements from the Center -

Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Keeping Current Seminar Series Please join us for a presentation by Andrew Loehrer, MD, Research Fellow at the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery and General Surgery Resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Disparities Solutions Center Associate. This seminar will examine racial disparities in surgery before and after the 2006 insurance expansion while providing potential insights into the impact of national health reform on racial disparities in surgical disease. Please go to our Events page to reserve your spot and for more information.

Position Available - Research Assistant for the DSC
The Disparities Solutions Center is seeking a full-time research assistant to assist with the day-to-day duties of a variety of projects. Please see our Opportunities page for more information.

Congratulations to the Disparities Leadership Program 2013-2014 Class! The Disparities Leadership Program is pleased to announce this year's 2013-2014 class! Eleven organizations – including hospitals, health plans, a community health center and non-profit community organizations – from around the United States have been selected to participate in a year-long executive leadership program designed to tackle racial and ethnic disparities in health care. To learn more about this year's class, view our Participants page. For more information on the Disparities Leadership Program, please visit our DLP web page.

Massachusetts General Hospital Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities Launches New Website
The Massachusetts General Hospital Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities has recently launched its new website. This website has been updated to allow for greater usability and is intended to provide users more information about the Committee and its current and past initiatives. In addition, the website now includes an overview of the issue of health disparities on national, state, and local levels, along with resources that users can download to use in their own organizations’ health equity initiatives. Go to their brand new home page for more information. 

Massachusetts General Hospital Named in DiversityInc's Top 10 Hospital Systems
The Massachusetts General Hospital was recently named Number 7 in DiversityInc's Top 10 Hospital Systems in the United States. DiversityInc states that MGH was included in its list because it is "the third-oldest general hospital in the United States [that] has been committed to diversity and inclusion for several years. Aware that candidates percieve a lack of racial/ethnic diversity at its corporate headquarters, the hospital has implemented a series of initiatives" to address diversity issues. The MGH Disparities Committee, which has been active in this work, has recently launched its new website, mentioned above, which features the initiatives discussed in the DiversityInc announcement. For more information about the award, please go to DiversityInc's webpage highlighting MGH's work.

Save The Date! The Healthcare Quality and Equity Action Forum 2014
Our next Healthcare Quality and Equity Action Forum will take place on 
June 19th and 20th, 2014.
The Healthcare Quality and Equity Action Forum serves as a dissemination and implementation conference developed and led by The Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), as well as alumni from the Disparities Leadership Program. The Forum targets leaders that are active in health care delivery and focus on quality improvement (including those from health plans, hospitals, and health centers across the country). It provides participants with the tools and skills to identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in health care within their organizations, with the goal of empowering them to implement these strategies and transform their organizations to focus on quality and equity. Please go to our Forum page for more information.