“We need to recognize the inequities built into and perpetuated throughout the U.S. Health System and choose, every day, to work towards giving every group the opportunity to live healthy lives!”
Ndifreke I. joins the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) from the Aspen Institute where she served as a senior associate responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Health Innovators Program, serving over 120 senior health executives and thought leaders.
As Civic Science Fellow, Ndifreke will support the health equity work of CMSS by collaborating with member societies to support shared learning across society stakeholders, including staff and volunteer leaders that oversee equity, clinical guidelines and algorithms, research, informatics and publishing. Her work to date has included planning and facilitating the June 2024 convening “Together to Catalyze Change for Racial Equity in Clinical Algorithms” at the National Academies, including the launch of the Encoding Equity alliance led by CMSS. In the months ahead, Ndi will be creating a change-management toolkit for specialty societies to address the misuse of race in clinical algorithms; developing a session on race in clinical algorithms and progress in the field for the CMSS annual meeting; and convening clinical guidelines developers to identify challenges and opportunities in the race and clinical algorithms space.
Doris Duke Foundation seeks to expand the understanding of the role of race in clinical algorithms by providing support for Civic Science Fellows at host partner organizations to effect change by elevating new voices, new perspectives, and new work across sectors in journalism, higher education, medical training and medical societies. https://lnkd.in/e-jqqHyi
