This page aims to draw attention to Health Equity and DEI issues within the field of Primary Care. This includes diversifying the workforce, recognizing connections, creating supportive environments where individuals from diverse backgrounds may experience microaggressions, unconscious bias, and discrimination, which can negatively impact access to primary care..
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David Satcher is an American physician, and public health administrator. He was a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 11th Assistant Secretary for Health, and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States.
In 1993, Satcher became the first African American to direct the CDC. In 1998, he was appointed U.S. Surgeon General. In that role, he focused on such crucial issues as tobacco use among minority groups and the need for school-based sex education to prevent disease and unplanned pregnancy.
After leaving government service, he founded the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta with the aim of addressing health disparities through research and leadership training. Satcher’s own research revealed a disturbing reality: more than 886,000 deaths could have been prevented from 1991 to 2000 if African Americans had received the same care as White people.