Title:Georgetown report highlights health disparities and calls for racial equity in the District of Columbia

As Chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration, Christopher King provides visionary leadership and oversight of undergraduate and graduate academic programs. As associate professor, he teaches and contributes to scholarship on the creation of equitable systems of care within the context of national health reform goals. He works closely with public and private providers to more formally integrate social correlates of health in standards of patient care.

King is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and served as an advisor for the D.C. Department of Health State Innovation Model, Adventist HealthCare’s Center for Health Equity and Wellness, and the Maryland Governor’s Wellmobile Program. The Washington Business Journal has recognized him as one of the region’s top minority business leaders. In 2019, he was appointed a Commissioner for the District of Columbia Commission on Health Equity.

Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia is a publication of the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) at Georgetown University Medical Center. It was commissioned by the D.C. Commission on African American Affairs in 2016 and updated in 2020.