“Patients-Centricity”: A Critical Component To Closing Disparities

The Reservoir Advocacy & Alliance Network (RAAN) recently convened its diverse experts and seasoned strategic partners for a discussion on the emerging importance of patients-centered approaches to health care and their role in closing health disparities. Patients-centricity revolves around the core belief that patients are not uniform. They face unique and diverse obstacles and challenges, […]

Exploring Collaborative Strategies For Rural Health Equity

To achieve health equity, health professionals must include and prioritize the experiences of those living in rural communities. More than one in six people live in rural America, a testament to the vital role rural communities play in our nation’s economy, infrastructure and culture. As many rural hospitals across the country struggle to remain open, the opioid crisis continues and […]

Advancing Health Equity For AAPi Communities

The struggle for visibility, equity and support for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities has never been more urgent. Incidents of hate reached new heights at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fight for representation in conversations around minority health is ongoing. The term AAPI is used to describe a diverse population […]

Talking Hispanic Health With Aimée Thorne-thomsen: Facing Challenges & Creating Opportunities

Aimée Thorne-Thomsen is a longtime community organizer and reproductive justice advocate whose work is focused on building power with and for women and girls, communities of color, immigrants, youth, and LGBTQ people. As founder of Guerrera Strategies, she helps corporate and nonprofit leaders move beyond the rhetoric of diversity, equity and inclusion, and aids them […]

Confronting Misinformation And Disinformation In Health Care: Where Do We Go From Here?

Reservoir Communications Group recently assembled the diverse experts and seasoned strategic partners of the Reservoir Advocacy & Alliance Network (RAAN) to discuss the negative impacts of misinformation and disinformation in the health care space – and what we can do to address it. While both misinformation and disinformation can deceive audiences with false information that is widely […]

A 360-degree Perspective: The Reservoir Advocacy And Alliance Network

Alliance development and advocacy, from our perspective, is not a one-person job. It takes a village, and in our case, that village includes a network of strategic advisors we call the Reservoir Advocacy Alliance Network (RAAN). The network includes a cadre of leading experts with deep expertise in health advocacy and strategic communications targeted to […]