Clinicians & Antibiotic Stewards: Reduce Health Inequities

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

UC San Diego’s Jacinda C. Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH and CDC’s Lauri Hicks, DO, FACP discuss ways to advance health equity in health care.

Everyone has a role to play in improving equity, whether you are providing clinical care or leading infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship implementation, or an entire healthcare organization. Drs. Jacinda C. Abdul-Mutakabbir, University of California San Diego, and Lauri Hicks, CDC, provide commentary on how individual clinicians, healthcare organizations, and the public health workforce can reduce health inequities in this Safe Healthcare Blog. Learn more about improving antibiotic prescribing and use: www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use.

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