Google launched The Health Equity Tracker platform in May in collaboration with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine.
The health emergency due to COVID-19 has affected the whole world, however, the most vulnerable communities have seen the gaps in inequities and structural inequalities grow, especially in access to health. Faced with this problem, Google worked together with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine to develop a project on equity in health.
In May, Google launched The Health Equity Tracker (HET), "a publicly available data platform that visually displays and contextualizes the health disparities facing communities of color across the US," explains Chelsea Seabron on the Google blog. Google.
For the creation of this platform, 18 Google interns participated, donating more than 15 thousand hours of work. They analyzed thousands of public health data, records of COVID-19, such as deaths, hospitalizations and infections.
The HET is available at the following link: http://healthequitytracker.org/. “The platform measures social and systemic factors, such as poverty and lack of health insurance, that exacerbate these inequities and have resulted in higher COVID-19 death rates for people of color, especially Black and Latino communities.”
The platform focuses on the analysis of data on COVID-19, however, Google hopes to add variables related to mental health, disability and the LGBTQ+ community.
Learn more about the research and data analysis process in the HET video series posted on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL590L5WQmH8diWLLqZm7BLf6E0HFCbCLP
