Health Equity Roundtable
The Health Equity Roundtable
The Health Equity Roundtable brings together health care providers, patients, community leaders and advocates to facilitate conversations about how to end inequalities in our health care system.
Read the results of the first Transgender Health Report and Transgender Health Executive Summary on Transgender Health. The Roundtable program is suspended, pending staffing decisions. For information email Karen_Voci@harvardpilgrim.org.
Transgender Health
Transgender Health with Fenway Health Center and the Dimock Center
Boston, MA
In Boston, the Dimock Center hosted our Roundtable gathering of 35 transgendered people, family members, health care professionals and providers to talk about how transgendered patients experience the health care system.
Transgender Health with PFLAG
Harford, CT
In Hartford, PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) hosted our Roundtable with 50 transgendered and non-binary people, as well as advocates and parents of transgendered children, and physicians, nurses and mental health clinicians to talk about how local health institutions care for transgendered people.
About these projects
- Transgender Patients Decry Hostility Over Medical Care (Boston Globe)
- A State By State Look At Transgender Equality In America (Huffington Post)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation: Lack of Expertise, of Transgender Health Needs (Rainbow Times)
- Health Affairs Blog
- Rainbow Times