Cambridge Improves Health Equity
A Tale of Two Cities
Go to the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and stand outside the city’s health department. Look in one direction and you’ll see housing developments and a school serving the low-income families who call the area home. Turn your head 90 degrees and you’re looking down to Kendall Square—one of the most dense hubs of education and innovation in the country.
The city is famous for the elite institutions of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for its information technology and biotech scenes—yet parts of Cambridge struggle with immense poverty and public health challenges.