Dismantling Structural Barriers to Healthcare: Robyn Bussey, “Just Health” Director at the Partnership for Southern Equity

About this episode

Robyn Bussey discusses efforts to dismantle structural barriers to healthcare in Georgia.

On this episode of Raise the Line from Elsevier with host Michael Carrese, we journey to the State of Georgia to get an on the ground view of work to dismantle structural barriers to healthcare, including institutionalized racism. Our guide is Robyn Bussey, Just Health Director at the Partnership for Southern Equity, an Atlanta-based nonprofit advancing racial equity and shared prosperity across the South.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Carrese

Guest: Robyn Bussey

Topics covered

• healthcare
• structural barriers
• racial equity
• institutionalized racism
• nonprofit work

Keywords

• healthcare
• structural barriers
• racial equity
• Georgia
• nonprofit

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Partnership for Southern Equity

Places: Georgia, Atlanta

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