VisualDx, Vaseline Join Forces to Advance Education on Treating Skin of Color

Vaseline will grant providers the ability to leverage an all-in-one educational experience through VisualDx with an additional offering of comprehensive resources to bolster their education around how skin conditions appear on melanin-rich skin.

 VisualDx and Vaseline are partnering to improve health equity by enhancing provider education on skin of color. 

This announcement comes after the organizations' collaboration last year to create See My Skin, the only database designed to search for conditions on skin of color and offer a tool to connect patients with providers who understand their skin care needs. Vaseline will broaden access to the VisualDx platform to empower clinicians to best identify, diagnose, and treat conditions for all patients regardless of skin tone.

Through the collaboration, Vaseline will grant providers the ability to leverage an all-in-one educational experience through VisualDx with an additional offering of comprehensive resources to bolster their education around how skin conditions appear on melanin-rich skin, as well as enhanced clinical decision-making, patient experience, and health outcomes. 

Vaseline and VisualDx recently hosted an educational webinar that explored the complexities of skin of color diagnosis and how emerging technologies like VisualDx are playing a key role in filling knowledge gaps and addressing inequities. 

The webinar is now part of an educational offering to train healthcare professionals, with hopes to reach thousands of providers by year's end. Vaseline and VisualDx will offer up to 500 frontline clinicians access to the VisualDx platform and its world-class image library.

"As a global brand focused on healing skin, Vaseline has long focused on ensuring people of all skin tones can achieve healthy skin. After successfully launching See My Skin last year to offer people a trusted resource with images of skin conditions on melanin-rich skin, we knew this was just the beginning of more joint efforts together," says Cara Sabin, President, Beauty & Wellbeing at Unilever. "We are excited to embark on this new project with VisualDx and further clinician knowledge of treating skin of color."

"VisualDx was founded with a mission to reduce bias and disparities in medical knowledge by improving diagnosis in skin of color around the globe, and our recent work with Vaseline® has perfectly aligned with this goal," says Art Papier, MD, co-founder and CEO of VisualDx. "We are proud to further our work with this renowned skincare brand and combine forces to continue pushing the envelope on improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical education, training, and practice itself."

For updates on the partnership, visit www.visualdx.com/vaseline.