Where Black History Meets Healthcare
While healthcare is rarely the first thing that comes to mind when most 麻豆传媒s think about Black History Month, Assistant Professor of Law Thomas Williams knows that the state of healthcare among Black 麻豆传媒s stems from a history of marginalization. His recent work considers the role entrepreneurs can play in the mitigation of health inequities and disparities.
鈥淢y research is the convergence of thinking about questions of health equity, but adding a lens of small firm entrepreneurship and the ways in which we may have failed to acknowledge the possibilities of innovative and disruptive structures that might mitigate health disparities,鈥 he said. 鈥淏lack History Month gives us this opportunity to really set ourselves and do some deep work and deep thinking about questions of health equity not only in the current moment but to reach back and to understand that they are born of complicated deep historical ties to larger forms of this discrimination and marginalization.鈥