Health equity is for everyone.

Dr. Crystal Cené is helping to build a world where all people are free to live the longest, healthiest lives possible.

Health equity is for everyone.

Dr. Crystal Cené is helping to build a world where all people are free to live the longest, healthiest lives possible.

People created health inequities. People can end them.

What social and structural drivers promote the very real health inequities that exist today? What role does racism play? And what can we do to help people live longer, healthier lives? Understanding these complex challenges is Dr. Crystal Cené’s life’s work. A career physician, health researcher, and nationally recognized health equity expert, Dr. Cené is committed to deepening our understanding of the world as it is, and as it could be for all.

What can we do to help people live longer, healthier lives? And what social-structural drivers promote the very real health inequities that exist today? Understanding these complex challenges is Dr. Crystal Cené’s life’s work. A career medical researcher and nationally recognized health disparities expert, Dr. Cené is committed to deepening our understanding of the world as it is, and as it could be for all.

Meet Dr. Crystal Cené.

Let's create systemic solutions instead of systemic barriers.

There’s something deeply wrong when the U.S. overwhelmingly suffers from the highest maternal mortality rates (MMR) in the industrialized world. First among those at risk are African-American women who are dying at rates 3-4 times greater than their Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and White peers, regardless of education, income or other socioeconomic indicators.

All-cause pregnancy-related death data for the figure are from the CDC's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER), covering births and pregnancy-related deaths among women aged 15-54 from 1989-2023.

An exceptional, longstanding record of service.

Today, there’s a consensus that health is a universal human right, but it hasn’t always been that way. The effects of the unequal distribution of health and its social determinants were not widely studied until the 1990s. It’s within this context that Dr. Cené offers her expertise and perspective on modern health systems.

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Dr Cené has been recognized by each of the following organizations for her expertise and leadership:

Crystal Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA