At Finding Answers, we're working to find out what works—and what doesn't—to reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities. Our new grants portfolio is a resource for health care organizations looking to incorporate equity into their quality imp…

A new study shows that culturally appropriate storytelling may help control blood pressure in African Americans with hypertension, according to an Read more »

Providing cultural competency training and performance report cards for physicians may not be enough to significantly impro…

Patient-centered approaches to reducing racial and ethnic disparities are promising, yet few organizations know how to create, implement, and evaluate them. During a workshop presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, …

Nurse-led patient-centered interventions within the context of wider systems change show great promise in reducing health disparities. Because nurses often spend more time with patients and can provide critical care coordination, they are in a unique p…

Primary care physicians caring for patients with diabetes have worse outcomes among their black patients than their white patients, reports a study, funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Finding Answers: Disparities Research…

A study, published as a Grant Watch Report in Health Affairs, analyzes the brief proposals received and awards made during the first round of Finding Answers:Disparities Research for Change grantmaking in 2006 to examine what types of interventions are…

With extensively documented racial disparities in health and healthcare in the US, primary care physicians could play a pivotal role in closing the gap.  It is difficult to imagine that we can successfully address racial disparities without the ef…