Our shared experience in medical education and health care delivery have shown first-hand that there can be no justice or equity until everyone receives the health care they need regardless of their zip code, the color of their skin, or their means.
Vulnerable populations, and specifically communities of color, face systemic differences that lead to significant and entirely avoidable obstacles to optimal health and quality of life.
These differences are rooted in social, economic, and environmental disparities which contribute to poor health outcomes, chronic disease, and premature death two times more than access to clinical care alone.
And these disparities are exacerbated by a decades-long shortfall in the training of medical professionals whose race, culture, ethnicity, and lived experience reflect those of their patients, fostering the trust and cooperation essential to optimized health outcomes.
Together, CommonSpirit Health and the Morehouse School of Medicine have launched a historic, ten-year commitment to address the grave inequities in health, well-being, and resiliency that underserved and disadvantaged communities in America face as the result of longstanding injustices.
The More in Common Alliance is a first-in-the-nation movement that will address the injustices that drive health inequity and lower barriers to health care by increasing representation by people of color, and from underserved backgrounds, in medicine.
Together, we will:
Together, our combined resources, influence, expertise, and experience will create a more just health care system in America that will save lives and sustain the well-being and resiliency of generations.
We invite you to join us.
With gratitude,
