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Office of Equity and Minority Health (OEMH)

MISSION: To provide a persistent and continuing focus on assuring health equity and eliminating health disparities among Michigan's populations of color.

  • American Indians/Alaska Natives
  • Arab and Chaldean Americans
  • Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
  • Black/African Americans
  • Hispanics/Latinos

 

OEMH major activities are:

  • To support and initiate programs, policies, and applied research to address social determinants of health that contribute to health inequities for racial and ethnic minority populations in Michigan;
  • To collaborate in the development of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services prevention, health service delivery, and research strategies in an effort to improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority populations in Michigan; and,
  • To facilitate implementation of culturally and linguistically appropriate health services throughout the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Office of Equity and Minority Health Overview

Health Equity Online Training

MDHHS has launched a new training (Health Equity Online Training) related to health equity and health disparities. This training will help you to better understand health equity and health disparities, factors that contribute to health inequities, populations that are most affected, the impact of health inequities, and how MDHHS employees can improve the health equity for state residents.

Health Equity Online Training

Systemic Racism: Computer Based Training

In using this training, you can establish a common language by defining key terms to identify how Michigan/MDHHS produces/perpetuates inequitable outcomes and explain how national -level systems produce inequities and decide how you can take action.

Systemic Racism: Computer Based Training

Anti-Racism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Digital Library

This digital library is intended to serve as an educational and actionable resource to help deepen anti-racism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) work. If you haven’t started your anti-racism and DEI journey, there’s no better time than now. We also encourage you to  create “Connections Spaces” for colleagues and peers to engage in collective discussion and learning.

Anti-Racism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Digital Library

Minority Health Capacity Building Initiative

The goal of the Minority Health Community Capacity Building initiative is to provide funding to support culturally and linguistically appropriate community-level projects that build capacity to identify and implement programs, policies, and practices to address social determinants of health that contribute to health inequities for racial and ethnic minority populations in Michigan.
Minority Health Capacity Building Initiative

Regional Health Equity Advisory Councils

The Regional Health Equity Councils are funded under the CDC OT21-2103 National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities. These councils will provide a network of trusted community partners that will help improve structural gaps in current and emerging health emergencies including policies, practices and resource flow related to data.

CONTACT INFO:

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Equity and Minority Health
Brenda J. Jegede, Manager
517-730-1692
jegedeb@michigan.gov
www.michigan.gov/minorityhealth

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