Health equity in the VA: Lessons learned from a learning health care system

Dr. Donna Washington will present “Health equity in the VA: Lessons learned from a learning health care system” at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023,12-1 p.m., in Turner Auditorium and via zoom. 

Dr. Washington is a general internist, professor of medicine at UCLA, and a core investigator at the VA Health Service Research & Development Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy.

She leads the VA's Health Equity QUERI National Partnered Evaluation Center, which partners with the VA's Office of Health Equity in using a population health approach to examine health, healthcare quality, experiences, and outcomes of vulnerable Veteran populations across the VA healthcare system.

Her approaches demonstrate how social determinants of health among racial-ethnic minoritized Veteran groups can undermine even our best models of care.