Promoting Health Equity and Reducing Medical Disparities

IN A highly current, relevant, and consequential keynote lecture at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference 2023, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA, delved into the pervasive disparities in health equity that are seen both in the USA and across the globe. Pérez-Stable focused their lecture on the need for standardized measures and data sets to increase understanding of the socioeconomic factors that contribute to medical disparities. Using clinical examples of tobacco use behavior, asthma epidemiology, lung cancer management, and diversity of medical professionals, Pérez-Stable delved into the nuanced and significant challenge of health disparities.