Gathering Ground: Dr. Diana Derige and the AMA

Since the pandemic's beginning in March 2020, organizations, foundations, individual donors, and everyone working on the front lines of our most urgent challenges have been emphasizing social determinants of health. Now, health equity is being prioritized as we see disparate COVID positivity numbers ebb and flow with some regularity within specific communities more than others.

Dr. Diana Derige is the Vice President of Health Equity Strategy at the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity, which embeds health equity across the organization to become part of the practice, process, action, innovation, and organizational performance and outcomes. Recently, alongside two of her colleagues, she edited and contributed to April's volume of the AMA Journal of Ethics titled Health Equity in US Latinx Communities. This issue of the Journal includes articles like "Should Clinicians be Activists?" "Latino Invisibility in the Pandemic," and Language and Health (In)Equity in US Latinx Communities."

In this episode of Gathering Ground, Mary and Diana discuss Diana’s role at AMA, the health disparities that are impacting Latinx and intersecting identities, and the work that AMA’s Center for Health Equity is doing to move the needle.

In this episode:

Dr. Diana Derige
Vice President of Health Equity Strategy, American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity