Spotlight on Becki Hale
As director of Child Health Evaluation, Becki Hale has a daunting task ahead of her. The CCHAPS endeavor is quite a sizable undertaking, but it's more than a survey.
As director of Child Health Evaluation, Becki Hale has a daunting task ahead of her. The CCHAPS endeavor is quite a sizable undertaking, but it's more than a survey.
"Along with the responsibility to overcome the prominent health issues identified in our region through the survey," she said. "I believe we can make real progress in addressing health equity issues at the same time because access to care is consistently one of the issues the survey identifies."
Leaving the small town of Hillsboro in 2000 for dental hygiene school, Becki moved to the big city of Houston with its population diverse in race, ethnicity and household income, and it opened her eyes to such inequity.
Working through hands-on clinical practices and studies, it became clear to Becki that families of color and lower-income families will inherently have different health issues, priorities and overall experiences.