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I am a thought leader who cares about justice, equity and that which affects the core of our humanity. As a health justice scholar, I believe we have the right to dignity and equitable access to resources that foster thriving in our lives. Without this, we cannot be truly healthy as individuals or as a nation.
So I engage with communities, I lead courageous and solution-oriented conversations, and present about structural issues that matter to ignite and inspire each of us to make changes within ourselves and our world.
I look forward to helping to navigate and lead you through similar conversations as a consultant and speaker.
Suck It Up, Buttercup
A film currently in production addressing Trust and Betrayal in American Medicine.
A Documentary to drive change.
Suck It Up, Buttercup is an investigative, emotional, solution-driven film featuring physicians, clinicians, patients, and other key stakeholders, exposing the frailties of the US healthcare system in terms of corporate greed, systemic bureaucratic failures, and a deteriorating work environment that's putting all of us at an ever-increasing risk. This is a close examination of health systems that have failed as well as systems that have succeeded and why.
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement - 2023
Why is the role of a system wide equity leader so important?
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NCP 2022
John Dingell Disparities and Inequities in Cancer Panel Discussion
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End Well
Living Data by Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA
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National Cancer Prevention Workshop 2021
Less Cancer – National Cancer Prevention Workshop
Thinking outside of the box requires not believing that there is one.
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What is a Health Equity officer and how does it improve care
May 19, 2025 — Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 26, Issue 5 — Health equity is the fair and equal opportunity for all people to achieve their highest level of health regardless of their social, economic, or geographic status. Read the Article +
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New IHI framework lays out elements needed for successful health equity officers
August 1, 2024—Fierce Healthcare — The Institute for Healthcare Improvement published its Defining the Health Equity Officer Role report, based on learnings from a related rapid-cycle innovation project as well as an advisory group of health equity officers. Read the Article +
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How the Rise to Health Coaltion aims to tackle healthcare equity
March 1, 2024—Health Data Management — In the following video, Camille Burnett, vice president for health equity-US portfolio at Institute for Healthcare Improvement, introduces the Rise to Health Coalition at ICD's 2023 Patient Experience Symposium in Boston. Read the Article +
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Fierce 50 Award: Health Equity honorees | Fierce Pharma
October 2, 2023 — Fierce 50: Health Equity honorees — Public health heroes, handpicked by presidents for their expertise. A billionaire serial entrepreneur, ushering trust and transparency into the drug industry. Trailblazers whose fervor for change ignited in response to firsthand encounters with health inequities. Read the Article +
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Why coordinated action is needed to advance health equity
July 25, 2023 — American Medical Association — The AMA has been working to eliminate health inequities and to make optimal health for all a reality. So has the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). And so have many other leading racial justice and health care organizations. Read the Article +
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UK Project Will Help Black Lexingtonians Access Mental Health Services
March 9, 2022 — University of Kentucky News — Historically, studies have shown that Black individuals are less likely to seek and accept mental health care due to concerns regarding stigma as well as mistrust of professionals caused by documented racial inequities in treatment. Read the Article +
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VCU to help develop a racial-healing toolkit for colleges and universities
February 18, 2022 — VCU News — Virginia Commonwealth University is one of 19 colleges and universities selected by the American Association of Colleges and Universities to serve as thought partners to develop a Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Climate Assessment Toolkit. Core teams from each institution will provide feedback on the toolkit’s relevance, content and structure. Read the Article +
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UNITE Connecting UK Research with Community to Address Racial Equity
April 23, 2021 — University of Kentucky News — University of Kentucky administrators, faculty, staff and students engaged with a diverse panel of Kentucky community leaders to identify research priorities to address racial equity across the Commonwealth. Read the Article +
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Achieving Equity and Inclusivity in Community Engagement
March 9, 2021 — 2021 EMERGE Conference — This dynamic session featured a conversation with local leaders about what successful community engagement should include and took a deeper look at the journey of two neighborhood projects which have made Lexington a better city for us all. Read the Article +
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Three UK Faculty to be Inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
August 27, 2020 — University of Kentucky News — TheAmerican Academy of Nursinghas selected three University of Kentucky College of Nursing faculty members, Camille Burnett, Lovoria Williams and Sharon Lock, to be inducted into its 2020 class of Academy Fellows. Read the Article +
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Extending the reach of nursing leadership: The GNLI™ Facilitator Training Programme
20 August, 2020 — International Council of Nurses — Responding to the current situation of COVID-19 around the world, and the need for a virtual alternative to ICN’s flagship leadership programme for nurses, the Facilitators Training Programme aims to create a cadre of trained facilitators to support the delivery of GNLI 2020 and future ICN programmes. Read the Article +
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UK’s Heart-2-Heart Campaign Expands to Agriculture
July 6, 2020 — UKNOW— They go to work bright and early every morning regardless of the day of the week or the weather conditions to help ensure Americans have the safest, freshest food supply in the world. To thank them for their tireless work, the University of Kentucky is expanding its Heart-2-Heart campaign to the state’s farmers July 1. Read the Article +
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COVID-19 The Nurse Response: Safe Homes
May 21, 2020 — See You Now Podcast — We speak with nurse scientist Camille Burnett about how nurses are in a unique position in their communities to screen, access, intervene, and meet people where they are—particularly responding to intimate partner violence. Read the Article +
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UK Colleges of Nursing, Agriculture Launch Heart-2-Heart Letter Writing Campaign
April 27, 2020 — VCU News — The University of Kentucky Colleges of Nursing and Agriculture, Food, and Environment are partnering to launch “Heart-2-Heart,” a letter writing campaign to show compassion and support to healthcare workers battling COVID-19. Read the Article +
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Ribbon Campaign Supports Nurses and Health Care Front Line Workers
April 22, 2020 — UKNOW — Responding to the current situation of COVID-19 around the world, and the need for a virtual alternative to ICN’s flagship leadership programme for nurses, the Facilitators Training Programme aims to create a cadre of trained facilitators to support the delivery of GNLI 2020 and future ICN programmes. Read the Article +
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College of Nursing Professor Represents UK at Global Nursing Summit
September 26, 2019 — UKNOW — Camille Burnett, PhD, associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, is among an elite group of 30 nurse scholars from around the world to attend the Global Nursing Leadership Institute (GNLI) residential programme in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 13-20. These scholars are a diverse mix of participants selected by an expert panel and come from all six WHO regions. Read the Article +
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Carrying On Edwards’ Legacy, Nursing School Meets Patients Where They Are
September 18, 2018 — UVA Today — Carrying on the legacy of the late clinical nursing instructor Holly Edwards, who cared for residents’ physical and spiritual needs for more than a dozen years, community health nurse Sharon Veith has begun seeing patients at Westhaven’s clinic, on Hardy Drive, which she reopened in late August. Read the Article +
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Hardy Drive community clinic reopens for public housing residents
September 23, 2018 — Daily Progress — The clinic was a longtime effort of clinical nursing assistant and Charlottesville vice mayor Holly Edwards. It opened in 1994 but as grants ran out, Edwards stayed on. She practiced a parish model of nursing until her death in 2017. Read the Article +