One year and $40 million later, a health equity tracker has been launched to help the U.S. address major discrepancies in health care brought to the forefront during the pandemic.
Funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with support from the philanthropic arm of Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and funding from Gilead Sciences (GILD), helped create the new tracker. Though still in its infancy, the tracker is a "game changer," according to one of the creators, Daniel Dawes.
Dawes, director of The Morehouse School of Medicine's Satcher Health Leadership Institute, lead the project which launched last June.
The resulting site is "more unique than anything else out there," Dawes told Yahoo Finance in an interview.
The federal government has already begun its own efforts into health equity, lead by a task force lead by Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, but the tracker will complement government-based sites or efforts, Dawes said.
