Health equity is having the opportunity to attain the highest level of health, physically, mentally, and socially.

Everyone should be afforded this right; however, social, economic, and environmental barriers prevent people from being able to reach their full potential.

Because of those barriers, there are vast differences in disease and access to health care among people of different age, race, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, disability, and geographic location.

1. American Public Health Association
2. American Association of Retired People
3. Center for Disease Control
4. Center for Disease Control
5. Feeding America 
6. Center for Disease Control

The Center for Health Equity (CHE) aims to understand and reduce health disparities in underserved populations, particularly those in Western Pennsylvania. The center engages the community in efforts to reduce the major causes of excess mortality among disadvantaged populations in the region, such as infant mortality; community violence; and cardiovascular health, with the ultimate goal of reducing excess mortality in the southwestern Pennsylvania region. Read more...

Certificate in Health Equity

The graduate certificate program provides students with an academic foundation for achieving health equity through...

• assessing the complexity of inequities among diverse groups of marginalized populations, 
• mobilizing communities where disparities exist,
• developing culturally tailored interventions, and
• advocating for healthy public policy.  

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