PHYSICIAN · AUTHOR · HEALTH EQUITY ADVOCATE
The Death Gap revealed how inequality kills.Crossing the Gap shows how Chicago built a model to close America’s death gaps.
GAP
NEW BOOK · AVAILABLE NOW
DR. ANSELL AND THE CHICAGO TEAM HAVE BEEN FEATURED IN:
WHAT IS THE DEATH GAP?
A few L stops apart.
Twenty years of life.
Crossing the Gap follows health leaders and Chicago residents working together to close the divide that annually kills more people than died in 9/11.
01 / THE NEW BOOK
Where you live
shouldn’t dictate
when you die.
In Crossing the Gap, Dr. David Ansell traces Chicago’s health divide to its roots and follows the people building a different future across lines of race, neighborhood, and power.
BOOKS
Three books
One urgent,
fixable crisis.
THE NEW BOOK
Crossing
the Gap
THE DEFINING ACCOUNT
The Death
Gap
INSIDE A PUBLIC HOSPITAL
County
02 / ABOUT
A doctor who
refuses to accept
the gap.
For more than four decades, Dr. David Ansell has worked at the intersection of medicine, justice, and public action, from Cook County Hospital to the front lines of health equity in Chicago.
major U.S. cities.SPEAKINGIdeas that move
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