This year World Health Day and National Minority Health Month share not only the same timeframe, but a similar theme: Building a Fairer, Healthier World.” We sat down with a transformational leader in this space, Howard Mosby of H.E.A.L. Collaborative, to get his insights on what topics he believes should be at the center of…
Rosa Parks calmly demanding her rights on a bus in Alabama; Amelia Earhart bravely flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean; Clara Burton establishing the Red Cross; Kamala Harris representing her country as the first female Vice President of the United States—over the course of human history, women have taken on many a challenge not only…
More than two years ago, my colleagues at CURA Strategies and our friends at CareDx set out to create a movement to address an injustice in Medicare policy for kidney transplant patients. This short-sighted policy caused donated kidneys to be rejected, cost lives, wasted Medicare money and failed to honor the selfless gift of organ donation. This issue is…
Our name, CURA—Latin for care, concern, and attention to others—exemplifies our mission to take exceptional care of our clients so they can transform the health care system and improve lives. As communities and patients across the country continue to struggle under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic uncertainties, our team has…
At CURA, we’re always looking at current events through the lens of what we do best: health care. We’ve been closely monitoring the congressional elections to inform our forthcoming CURA Health Policy Profiles: A Guide to the Freshman Members of the 117th Congress, which dives into the health policies of incoming freshmen to be seated…
In the words of Michael Mawby, patient advocacy expert and guest speaker of our latest webinar, “if you want to move policy in a big way, you need partners—whether you’re sitting on the patient side or the corporate side.” On September 29, CURA presented the fourth webinar in our “Art of Advocacy” series: Identifying the…
