WELL FIGHT IT OUT HERE

How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award from the Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage Racism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries These health disparities only became a mainstream issue on the agenda of US health leaders and policy makers because a group of health professions schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities banded together to fight for health equity We ll Fight It Out Here tells the story of how the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools AMHPS was founded by this coalition and the hard won influence it built in American politics and health care David Chanoff and Louis W Sullivan former secretary of health & human services detail how the struggle for equity has been fought in the field of health care where bias and disparities continue to be volatile national issues Chanoff and Sullivan outline the history of Black health care from pre Emancipation to today centering on the work of AMHPS which brought to light health care inequities in 1983 and precipitated virtually all minority health care l