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The gritty reality of healthcare may not be everyone’s favorite topic right now, but people like Dr. Uché Blackstock are working to make it better. As CEO of Advancing Health Equity (AHE), she’s working hard to eradicate racism in healthcare through her leadership and her advocacy about issues like inclusion and the sudden national backlash against diversity initiatives.
As head of AHE, she’s constantly working with hospitals, health systems, and big companies, especially pharmaceutical firms, to educate and integrate health equity into how they do business. Currently, her major challenge is coaching healthcare executives to stick to and promote these ideas even as they’re under attack in the public eye.
Next to her work inside the industry, Blackstock has also made a big dent in educating the rest of us by speaking out publicly and through her bestselling memoir, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, which was released in paperback in 2025.
