The Biden-Harris administration has invited Dr. Michael Hole of The University of Texas at Austin to participate in its newly formed and nonpartisan Health Equity Leaders Roundtable. The White House Office of Public Engagement has created a roundtable series featuring a small group of cross-sector leaders from across the United States to jointly explore how the federal government might further leverage innovation and technology to advance health equity nationally.
Significant gaps in health exist between groups in the United States, reflected in differences in access to treatment, length and quality of life, and rates of disease, disability and death. For example, children in poverty are 1.5 times as likely to die and twice as likely to be hospitalized.