Bridging Disparities in Access to Care and Government Services

This document addresses common questions received through webinars, support desk requests, and jurisdiction meetings.

This blog post was posted by Kevin Duvall on January 19, 2021. It was written by Kristen Honey, Chief Data Scientist and Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Alex Wilson, IT Specialist, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), HHS; and Sara Brenner, Diagnostic Data Lead, Data Strategy and Execution Workgroup, HHS; Chief Medical Officer for In Vitro Diagnostics, Associate Director for Medical Affairs, CDRH, U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

This blog post was posted by Adena Galinsky, Associate Service Fellow, National Center for Health Statistics, on June 23, 2014

This blog post was posted on September 4, 2018

After a year of pandemic and calls for social justice change, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) answered both by bringing on a cohort of fellows focused on data, innovative solutions, and equity. HHS’ InnovationX and the Office of the Chief Data Officer hosted four Civic Digital Fellows, and a Kinder Summer Scholar throughout the Summer of 2021.

This blog post was posted by Damon Davis on January 6, 2017.

By Kristen Honey, Chief Data Scientist and COVID-19 Diagnostics Informatics Lead, COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostics Working Group (TDWG); Joshua Prasad, Director of Health Equity Innovation, Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO), Jack Bastian, Data Engineer, HHS Protect, Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO)

Following the COVID-19 TOPx Technology Development Sprint, HHS and the U.S. Census Bureau continue data-driven collaboration through the Open Data for Good Grand Challenge for the American public to develop digital tools using government data. Cash prizes total $100,000 for health and COVID-19 solutions.

This blog post was posted by Christopher Powers on February 14, 2014