Highlights
- •Major disparities in health outcomes persist
- •Structural racism undermines efforts to advance health equity
- •Prioritizing the need for racial and ethnic diversity among nursing leaders
- •Reconciling funding inequities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- •Sustainable partnerships that benefit communities that are under-resourced
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