Featured in the Cincinnati Business Courier In the first of a three-part virtual discussion series titled Cincinnati’s Road to Recovery, Jamie Smith, Business Courier market president and publisher, on Tuesday July 28 questioned three community and business leaders about their respective organizations’ reactions to the Covid-19 crisis. The Courier plans to follow up with Road … Read More
Featured on Cincinnati.com | Renee Mahaffey Harris Opinion Contributor The alarming statistics from New York, Milwaukee, Chicago, Louisiana, and Michigan are shedding the light on health disparities that have persisted in the United States since it was first identified by the Health & Human Services Secretary in 1985. The result of that 18-month research study … Read More
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Renee Mahaffey Harris, president of the Center for Closing the Health Gap, about why Blacks and Latinos are not well represented in clinical vaccine trials. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Of the COVID cases reported in the United States, half are among Black and Latino people. And yet, in vaccine trials underway, only … Read More
Featured in the Cincinnati Business Courier My first year as President/CEO of The Center for Closing Health Gap (The Health Gap) in 2019 began with a reassessment of the work we do, and how the community receives and is impacted by our work. We also identified what gaps exist that if filled can be a … Read More
Featured in Cincinnati Magazine The president and CEO of the Center for Closing the Health Gap on serving the black community, collaboratively. “Our organization has been around for 16 years, working to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in Greater Cincinnati. When someone asked Dr. Fauci why there are disparate COVID-19 incidences and outcomes among … Read More