Case Studies
Video: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Specialty Society Grantee

November 2026

With support from the Doris Duke Foundation, Encoding Equity awarded grants that furthered efforts to reassess the use of race in clinical care across medical specialty societies. The ACS’s project, “Equity Across the Map: Redesigning Surgical Standards Beyond Race to Reflect Social, Geographic, and Biologic Drivers,” redesigned the Commission on Cancer Surgical Standards to move beyond race. To find out more about ACS’s project, view the video above.

Visit the Specialty Society Grant Program page.