How Deloitte Health Equity Institute Tackles Inequalities, per Director Kulleni Gebreyes, M.D.
In this final part of a three-part video series, Managed Healthcare Executive® Managing Editor Peter Wehrwein recently interviewed Kulleni Gebreyes, M.D., director of Deloitte's new Health Equity Institute about her career, healthcare disparities and equity issues and the work of the institute.
The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.
Maybe this is a good time to shift to more of the nitty gritty of what this Deloitte Health Equity Institute is about. Could you just fill us in exactly when it was created, about how many people work for it and, you know, maybe a project or two that that the institute is taking on?
I'll start with saying that, you know, Deloitte as an organization has been doing many things advance health equity for decades. So this is not a brand-new idea.
But the recent events have really made us look at ourselves to say how can we truly be impactful in society. So we established the Health Equity Institute in March of this year. And the way we define it is that it's a new social innovation and knowledge development organization that moves the field for public good and advances equity as an outcome.
Every single word is selected very intentionally, which is to say that we, as business leaders and professional services firm, believe that if you can define an outcome, and organize around it and create frames around it, that you can advance it.
So our main objective is exponential change. How do we drive exponential change through pro bono programs, philanthropy and cross-industry collaboration?
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