Mitigating Inequities: Language is the Road to Better Health

Dr. Monica Littlejohn is a clinical pharmacist at Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy. She spoke at NASHP 2024, held in Nashville, Tenn., about how specialty pharmacists can mitigate health inequities. She collaborated with her colleagues on a program to help overcome language barriers, a program she discusses here. Even if you have an interpreter, remember you are talking to the patient, not the interpreter, she suggested when she spoke with reporters from our sister publication, Specialty Pharmacy