Authors: Libby Graves (she/they), Executive Director, MA, Cityblock Health and Executive Sponsor, Out on the Block; Georgia Vachon (they/them), Strategic Operations, Cityblock Health and Co-Lead, Out on the Block The following transcript reflects a one-on-one conversation between Libby and Georgia that has been edited for length and clarity. Libby and…

Authors: Rob Jordan, LCSW, Loretta Staples, LCSW, and Ruby Mehta, LCSW Healthcare in the U.S. is in a state of rapid change and innovation, with several efforts underway to reduce costs while improving the quality of care. Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, this post focuses on the ways…

Author: Hope Tambala, Senior Software Engineer — Design Systems What led me to UX engineering I remember looking at paper health records in a house without electricity by candlelight one evening. My host dad (a military physician who was incredibly smart and committed to the health of his patients) asked me to help him organize some…

Author: Toyin Ajayi, M.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Cityblock Health The following is from Cityblock’s 2023 Equity in Action Report. When we founded Cityblock just over five years ago, we were motivated by a radical ambition: to demonstrate that it is not only possible, but critical, to transform outcomes for marginalized…

Author(s): Caprice Yu, Executive Creative Director, Cityblock Health In September of this year, we celebrated our five-year anniversary at Cityblock. This was a huge moment; five years ago, a group of people passionate about equality in healthcare decided to radically improve the health of marginalized communities at scale. In the…

Author(s): Toyin Ajayi, M.D., Co-founder and CEO, Cityblock Health; Sonika Mathur, SVP, Head of Social Care and Determinants of Health, Cityblock Health Why would a healthcare company urge you to vote? If all politics is local, then all health is personal, and nothing has more of an impact on the…

Author(s): Saad Khan, Senior Product Designer, Cityblock Health; and Stuart Kim, Product Design Lead, Cityblock Health Since 2017, Cityblock Health has been innovating ways that healthcare professionals work together to deliver care at scale to people that need it the most, primarily Medicaid and dually eligible individuals. These are marginalized…

Author(s): Michael Tang, M.D., Head of Behavioral Health, Cityblock Health; Kameron Matthews, M.D., Chief Health Officer, Cityblock Health Mental Health Awareness Month 2022 comes at an opportune time in the country’s health history. The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, and acts of violence continue to drive feelings of anxiety and…

Author: Dr. Pooja Mehta, Womens health lead, Cityblock Health “We can learn to mother ourselves” — Audre Lorde In the wake of Black Maternal Health Week and with another Mother’s Day upon us, we find ourselves inundated with the same old statistics speaking to a state of inequitable maternal care…