Green discusses racial inequities in health with PBS Wisconsin
Tiffany Green, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Reproductive and Population Health and the UW Department of Population Health Sciences, spoke with PBS Wisconsin for a recent story about conversations dealing with racial biases and their impact on pregnant patients.
In “Tiffany Green on racial inequities in delivering health care”, Green talked about how health care teams impact patient outcomes and disparities due to team compositions and the biases within these groups. Green also touched on how trust can be improved in health systems to create safer environments.
“I think the conversation that we've been having about racial inequities in these outcomes is I think well-meaning, but drastically oversimplified … we also find that these biases are relatively elevated among non-MD health care professionals, and so what that tells me is that we need to understand team composition.”
**by Paige Stevenson, Ob-Gyn Communications Intern