Study Estimates Home Blood Pressure Devices Don’t Fit Properly for More than 17 Million U.S. Adults
Findings suggest high risk of erroneous blood pressure readings for 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population
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Health Equity Faculty Experts
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Professor
Health Policy and Management
Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD ’06, MPH, uses research to advance policies that promote health equity, especially where people live, work, play, and travel.
Professor
Health, Behavior and Society
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH '93, works to advance health equity with scholarship on racial disparities in patient-physician communication and community-informed interventions.
Associate Professor
Epidemiology
Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD '12, MPH, uses epidemiology and health services research to advance equity in transplantation and related conditions, including kidney diseases, hypertension, and diabetes.
Professor
Health Policy and Management
Darrell Gaskin, PhD '95, MS, is a health economist who advances community, neighborhood, and market-level policies and programs that reduce health disparities.