Leading change in health care through innovative strategies.
We offer confidential, customized consultation services that are tailored to meet the health equity needs of your organization.
The Problem
The United States spends 4.1 trillion dollars in healthcare a year, which accounts for 19.7% of its GDP (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2021). Ninety percent of those expenses are for individuals with mental health and chronic health conditions, which are largely preventable (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021).
Despite spending more in healthcare than any other high-income country, the United States ranks last in equity, access to health care, and outcomes among 11 comparable, high-income countries (Commonwealth Fund, 2021).
Our Approach
We believe that the problems that are affecting the U.S. healthcare system cannot be solved with simple solutions or by individuals working in silos. Years working in the leading U.S. healthcare institutions have led us to develop a groundbreaking, data-driven, comprehensive approach designed to radically improve the healthcare system.
Meet Dr. Espinola
Dr. Maria Espinola is the CEO of the Institute for Health Equity and Innovation. She is a Harvard-trained psychologist who provides vision, leadership and strategic planning for the development and implementation of health equity initiatives in multifaceted organizations. She has a record of successful collaboration with leaders across universities, Fortune 100 companies, non-profit organizations and the three branches of government.
Dr. Espinola has been a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a technical expert for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has also served on the Ohio Commission on Minority Health’s Medical Expert Panel, the University of Cincinnati President’s Diversity Council, and the Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s Board of Directors. Dr. Espinola has traveled through 30 countries and recently served as an Official Delegate of the 5th Hispanic Leadership Summit at the United Nations.
Dr. Espinola has received over 25 awards for leadership, health equity initiatives, innovation, and community impact. She has reached over 1 billion people via media outlets, including the U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, CNN, Reuters Health, and Forbes Health.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 25, 1966
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