The integration of health equity into policy to reduce disparities: Lessons from California during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Ada T. Kwan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ada T. Kwan, Jason Vargo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ada.kwan@ucsf.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4889-9433

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• Jason Vargo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ada T. Kwan, Jason Vargo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• Caroline Kurtz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• Mayuri Panditrao,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• Christopher M. Hoover,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• Tomás M. León,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7633-677X

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• David Rocha,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• William Wheeler,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• Seema Jain,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America

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• Erica S. Pan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations California Department of Public Health, Sacramento and Richmond, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Priya B. Shete

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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