Charlotte Owens, Takeda's head of the Center for Health Equity and Patient Affairs

Take­da goes back to school, team­ing up with Dis­cov­ery Ed­u­ca­tion for health eq­ui­ty ini­tia­tive

It’s prob­a­bly fair to say most mid­dle school stu­dents aren’t think­ing a lot about health eq­ui­ty top­ics. Take­da’s new col­lab­o­ra­tion with Dis­cov­ery Ed­u­ca­tion wants to give them a nudge.

The three-year part­ner­ship cen­ters on stu­dents in grades 6 through 8 and pro­vides free dig­i­tal ma­te­ri­als for guid­ed dis­cus­sions in the class­room and at home. The Bet­ter Health in Ac­tion ini­tia­tive tack­les top­ics around glob­al health eq­ui­ty, un­der­stand­ing health lit­er­a­cy and ad­dress­ing the is­sues in their com­mu­ni­ties.

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