Engage with diverse community partners through place-based conversations. Cultivate opportunities to address unmet needs and improve outcomes for health equity across the state.
Good health is a fundamental human right, but not everyone has access to resources and support for healthy living. Historic and ongoing factors such as systemic racism, classism and homophobia are just a few barriers for communities of color and under-resourced populations—and the COVID-19 pandemic has widened disparities.
We're working to tear down these barriers in New Mexico. Through UNM HSC programs such as our Place-based Dialogue Progetto e Health Equity Summit 2022, we're bringing together a diversity of stakeholders and partners to center community voices and identify inequities.
Join our purpose: eradicating health equity gaps through active listening, collective practice and revolutionizing policies. See how you can get involved.
Here in New Mexico, the things we love about our home can bear challenges to achieving health equity. Our geography, for instance: It’s difficult to get quality health care when you live far from the nearest hospital.
Consider a few more challenges to achieving equal access, from the New Mexico Department of Health Office of Health Equity:
What’s more, our culturally diverse population has faced historical trauma from effects of colonization, racism and social injustice. These systemic challenges require our focused, collaborative effort to change.
Together, UNM HSC and our in tutto lo stato partners will advance health equity ill tackle inequity attraverso:
Everyone is invited to join UNM HSC in this important work.