California advocates continue the fight for better health data on Indigenous communities

Indigenous peoples with roots in Latin America have long gone unrecognized in California government datasets. Here’s what advocates plan to do after Governor Gavin Newsom’s vetoed a bill that aimed to change that.

On the afternoon of Oct. 13, Aurora Pedro spoke on a panel at the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC) Latinx Health Policy Summit, an annual gathering of health care providers and health equity advocates in Sacramento.