Research and Justice For All: Washington Housing Conservancy Shapes Health via Housing Reform

Guest: Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy

Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Kimberly Driggins from the Washington Housing Conservancy about the connections between housing security, economic mobility, and health outcomes. They also explore what it will take to reinvent an equitable, anti-racist housing system. 

This season is sponsored by Deloitte.

Learn more about Deloitte's work with Drivers of Health or the Deloitte Health Equity Institute.

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• Neighborhoods and Health: Interventions at the Neighborhood Level Could Help Advance Health Equity (Health Affairs)
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• Gentrification Yields Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Exposure To Contextual Determinants Of Health (Health Affairs)  

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