Takeda and Discovery Education Partner to Provide Health Equity Education to Grades 6 to 8
- By Kate Lucariello
- 12/05/22
Japanese global biopharmaceutical company Takeda
and ed tech company Discovery
Education have partnered to offer health equity and
STEM education topics to students, educators, and families in grades
6 through 8 free of charge through the Better
Health in Action: From Classroom to Community
initiative, to interest students in health equity careers.
The
digital resources suite includes videos, self-paced learning modules,
and family discussion guides that analyze inequities in communities
and how to address them through health and education. The initiative
is designed with standards-aligned resources that explore health
inequities, health equity, and health literacy. Interactive modules
follow the careers of three
Takeda professionals who use STEM skills in their
work.
“Once
we understand diverse patients’ needs and the communities in which
they were born, grow, live, work and age, we can create more
inclusive practices and develop innovative medicines that better
reflect how patients wish and need to engage with healthcare to
achieve their highest level of health,” Takeda said in its HEPA
profile.
Takeda
is a values-based R&D-driven biopharmaceutical company focusing
on oncology, rare genetics and hematology, neuroscience, and
gastroenterology, as well as investing in plasma-derived therapies
and vaccines.
Discovery
Education is an ed tech company serving 4.5 million educators and 45
million students globally with multimedia content, instructional
supports, and classroom tools in over 100 countries. Its system
recommendations for desktop and laptop computers include the Google
Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 44 and above, Safari 9.0 and above, and
Microsoft Edge 38.x and above browsers, and tablet and mobile devices
that work with ChromeOS, Android, and iOS operating systems.
About the Author
Kate Lucariello is a former newspaper editor, EAST Lab high school teacher and college English teacher.