Health Equity Consortium.

Join The Movement

Health Equity is a foundational part of improving clinician mental health. Improving culture starts with recruitment, technology, and medical education. The Sharp Index Health Equity Consortium meets monthly to educate, mentor, discuss, and do the work of improving health equity. We are a group including medical schools, individuals, patients, physicians, government, technology, and other individuals who invest time and money into improving health equity. We also have a yearly scholarship for students, researchers and prospective students interested in improving clinician mental health and health equity.

“Accelerating equitable access to care is a critical mission that every organization should rally behind. At Nuance, that means empowering healthcare providers with AI-powered solutions and intelligent engagement technology to ensure as many people as possible can leverage modern, convenient, and secure healthcare services through automated, personalized interactions across voice and digital channels, to ease care management, boost patient satisfaction, and achieve better outcomes.”

Diana Nole, Nuance Executive Vice President ad General Manager, Healthcare Division

Ways you can help:

Donate

Experts in health equity should be paid. Donate to fund research, speaking, and scholarship. In order to help our country’s most underserved patient populations, we must create the space for, encourage, and support doctors and clinicians of diverse races, ethnicities, and identities.
Your donations support student training and education through direct grants for Sharp Index Scholarship awardees.

Donate
Mentor

Join leaders who mentor, recruit, and help students from minoritized groups. We want to improve healthcare outcomes and decrease racism in healthcare. Patients do better with physicians from similar backgrounds.
Join as a mentor for the future, or a judge for potential scholarship winners. Don’t have time to judge? We need input from leaders about health equity and donations for scholarships.
The Health Equity Consortium is a group of leaders dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes and investing in health equity. We hold a monthly invite only think tank to build the future of health equity.

Mentor future physicians
Research

We partner with graduate students who want to do significant research in health equity and clinician mental health.

Participate in Research
Advise

Are you interested in participating as a student or patient leader? The foundation of the Health Equity Consortium is improving patient health through long term leadership and educational investment. We need leaders in patient care, in finance, in community organization, in racism, and prioritize diverse backgrounds and beliefs.
Please share your voice.

Share your story.
Partner

News outlets have the power to shape our society with a story. Technology and corporations should invest in health equity. Schools should be dedicated to improving patient outcomes through a foundation of equitable education.
The stories of historically minoritized clinicians and patients can influence policy, opinion, and care. We want physician voices about health equity to be included in healthcare discussions in the news and at events. We partner with events to share the good news, and work together to build a better future.

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Health Equity and the American Disabilities Act.

Barriers to medical education include lack of financial support, discrimination, and in some cases, licensure requirements that violate the American Disabilities Act. We are dedicated to removing mental health history questions from each state licensure exam. We are dedicated to medical education reform.

Is your organization dedicated to improving health equity in medicine? We would love to partner with you. Corporate sponsors pledge to improve health equity. Technologies that improve mental health for all clinicians can overcome barriers.
Medical schools can take the pledge to improve health equity through recruiting minoritized groups and participating in research. Medical schools should be dedicated to improving patient care and disparate outcomes, through their curriculum.
It takes a community to succeed. Become the community of a future physician.
We partner with healthcare leaders who want to be involved with students and support those who would not otherwise be able to be leaders in healthcare.
We want to raise your voice about health equity. What are the barriers you have experienced and what needs to be done to overcome them?
Health Systems can join as healthcare consortium members and voluntarily pledge to improve health equity and mental health access for all employees.
We want to ensure equitable representation at healthcare events and leadership. Physician voices about health equity are necessary.
The Sharp Index does not participate directly in lobbying or political work. If you are a nonprofit who is actively involved in mental health and healthcare legislation designed to improve health equity, please join to share your voice.