TY - JOUR T1 - Advocating for equity during the pandemic JF - BMJ Leader JO - BMJ Leader SP - 127 LP - 129 DO - 10.1136/leader-2020-000380 VL - 5 IS - 2 AU - Onyinyechi F Eke AU - Alister Martin AU - Hazar Khidir AU - Onyeka Otugo AU - Andrew Marshall AU - Joanne C. Suarez AU - Wendy L. Macias-Konstantopoulos Y1 - 2021/06/01 UR - http://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/5/2/127.abstract N2 - In response to an imminent surge in COVID-19 cases, the state of Massachusetts (MA) released its Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) guidelines in April 2020. A small group of Boston healthcare providers, community members, lawyers, ethicists and disability advocates brought to bear our collective strengths to forge a formidable coalition now known as the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity, to champion the rights of marginalised groups that would be adversely affected by the implementation of the original MA CSC guidelines. In this coalition, members of marginalised communities were adequately represented, led discussions on the implications of implementing inequitable elements of the CSC guidelines and actively involved in creating an alternative framework. In this article, we discuss the process of building a coalition whose concerted advocacy efforts led to the revision of the MA CSC guidelines. ER -