Category: PDJ

I believe the most significant legal challenge we face today is finding the right balance between individual rights and liberties and ensuring social justice on the other.

By Yasmine Winkler, Chief Marketing, Product and Innovation Officer, UnitedHealthcare UNITEDHEALTH GROUP IS a diversified health and well-being company with the mission of helping people live healthier lives. We recognize that the United States demographic make-up is ever-changing and becoming more diverse, with multicultural populations becoming the predominant driver of population growth. In the United… Read the full article

By Douglas Martin, Site Manager, Erie, Pennsylvania, BASF Nearly ten years ago, I accepted a new assignment at BASF that led to a major change in my life. It wasn’t the need to relocate my family from Charlotte, North Carolina, to New Jersey. It was something that happened at the doctor’s office when I underwent… Read the full article

By Shaun Hawkins, Chief Diversity Officer, Eli Lilly and Company ACCESS TO BETTER health is not only about getting proper care. People also must have culturally relevant health resources and programs. As we all know, we’re not all the same. That is why Lilly is working to understand how cultural differences impact patient outcomes. We’re… Read the full article

By Papatya Tankut, VP, Pharmacy Affairs, CVS Caremark CVS’s Project Health initiative, known as Proyecto Salud in Spanish, is helping to connect residents in multicultural communities to preventive healthcare. The wellness program, offered in several major U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.,… Read the full article

By Dr. John Agwunobi, President of Health & Wellness, Walmart U.S. I STARTED MY career as a pediatrician because I found it rewarding to help children and enjoyed seeing the positive difference you could make in each life. When I got the call to enter public service, first at the Florida Department of Health and… Read the full article

By Laura Mildenberger, Chief People Officer, DaVita Ten years ago, Valinda Jones was a busy African-American woman with moderately high blood pressure. She was also a labor and delivery nurse with thirty-five years of medical experience. Devoted to her family and career, Jones was always on the go, but a lot of the time, she… Read the full article

By Elizabeth Williams-Riley, President and CEO, American Conference on Diversity AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE four times more likely to die from asthma than their white counterparts. The rate of HIV infection among Latinas is four times greater than white women. Asian Americans are at greater risk of being infected with hepatitis B than non-Asians. Health inequity… Read the full article

By Melissa Lamson, Global Diversity Consultant Since the end of Apartheid in 1994, in which the government used oppressive tactics towards black Africans in order to gain and maintain power in South Africa, it has been astounding that war hasn’t broken out. Perhaps because the majority population supports the African National Congress, or the ANC,… Read the full article

By Carlton Yearwood, Senior Partner, True Blue Inclusion For twenty-five years I’ve been doing diversity work. Today, there’s a twice-elected African American in the White House; a woman leader being touted as our nation’s most popular, if not the greatest, Secretary of State, and possibly next president; and CEOs and C-suite leaders of all races… Read the full article