From Awareness to Action: Tackling Disparities in Public Health

David Nemiroff, president and CEO of Harmony Healthcare Long Island, stressed the foundational role of community health centers in health equity efforts. “We were founded in the civil rights movement to affect health equity,” he said. “When Dr. Geiger wrote his first script, he wrote it for food because the cure for malnutrition is food. That’s public health.” He emphasized the need to support not only clinical care but also housing, nutrition, and transportation services that enable health outcomes. Read the full article at Hofstra’s website.