Don Berwick, MD, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at IHI
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Learning Objectives: At the end of this activity, you will be able to:
Description: Don Berwick, MD, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at IHI, sat down with David R. Williams, Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to discuss health equity. In this video, Berwick offers some ideas on how the science of improvement can help advance health equity.
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Discussion Questions:
- How might you “start with yourself” in addressing health inequities?
- What is the merit of authentic curiosity? Can you think of any leaders who have encouraged change through authentic curiosity about a problem?
- Do you believe that learning comes from action? How is that different from other approaches to knowledge you have seen?
- Besides learning from action and measuring, what principles of improvement science might you apply to the problem of health disparities?