Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes (Gordon)

This talk focuses on the evolution of understanding of health inequalities and their impact on health outcomes for adults with diabetes. It provides new understanding of social determinants of health and highlight how upstream structural factors drive downstream social determinants of health and health outcomes in adults with diabetes. Finally, the talk discusses promising interventions to address social needs in adults with diabetes and novel policy-focused studies that have the potential to address upstream structural drivers of poor health outcomes.