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. 2020 Jul;158(1):25-31.
doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.05.023. Epub 2020 May 19.

Promoting health equity in the era of COVID-19

John H Farley  1 , Jeffrey Hines  2 , Nita K Lee  3 , Sandra E Brooks  4 , Navya Nair  5 , Carol L Brown  6 , Kemi M Doll  7 , Ellen J Sullivan  8 , Eloise Chapman-Davis  9
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Promoting health equity in the era of COVID-19

John H Farley et al. Gynecol Oncol. 2020 Jul.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest Dr. Brooks reports no conflicts. Dr. Brown is the Associate Cancer Center Director for Diversity & Health Equity at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was Immediate Past-President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology when the manuscript was being written. Dr. Chapman-Davis reports no conflicts. Dr. Doll reports no conflicts. Dr. Farley reports no conflicts. Dr. Hines reports no conflicts. Dr. Nair reports personal fees from Intellisphere, LLC DBA Targeted Healthcare Communications, outside the submitted work. Dr. Lee reports no conflicts. Ms. Sullivan reports no conflicts.

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Influencers of COVID-19 related health outcomes in marginalized populations.
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Belief components that contribute to implicit bias.
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Side-by-side comparison of the percentage of population made up by African-Americans to percentage of African-American COVID-19 deaths in cities heavily affected by the pandemic as of April 21, 2020. Data acquired from respective Department of Health websites and census data https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/communicable-disease/coronavirus-covid-19 http://ldh.la.gov/Coronavirus/ https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-deaths-race-ethnicity-04162020-1.pdf https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/latest-data.html https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/
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Suggested solutions to barriers experienced by marginalized populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. *Recommendations based on American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Gynecologic Oncology [43,44].
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