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Seven million Californians—most of them Latino, African American, and Native American—live in areas that lack critical medical services. Developing equitable health career pathways that start early in students’ educations and extend through adulthood is a core part of the solution, and it’s an approach that will create career opportunities for young people from underrepresented populations.
This brief presents examples of successful practices that develop equitable student-centered pathways to health careers at several of the 14 sites of the Building Healthy Communities initiative.