Health

Discrimination against LGBTQ+ people throughout the U.S. and around the world contributes to LGBTQ+ health disparities. A new Harvard center wants to shift that paradigm. The LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence,…

Flojaune Cofer, the epidemiologist and leading candidate in Sacramento’s mayoral race, will always remember watching her father die from congestive heart failure in 1993. She was 11,  the same age…

Briana Stephenson, assistant professor of biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, develops biostatistical models to better understand population health disparities. In this Q&A, she shares what motivates her work…

I still remember the fear, almost paralysis, I felt at the start of my career advancing health equity whenever I diagnosed a patient with tuberculosis or HIV. I knew what…

According to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States has made little progress in the last twenty years in bridging the racial disparities…

One morning in late April, a small brick rural health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines health disparities as preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health. Resulting from multiple factors, including…

Stark racial disparities in maternal and infant health in the U.S. have persisted for decades despite continued advancements in medical care. The disparate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for people of color…

How we ask for, analyze, and report information on race and ethnicity affects our ability to understand the racial and ethnic composition of our nation’s population and our ability to…

All people deserve the right to a healthy life, but healthcare equity and access can prove more difficult to achieve in rural communities, underscoring the need for initiatives focused on…

Today, the CUNY School of Medicine announced that it was awarded $19.3 million from the National Institutes of Health, the University’s largest-ever National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, to create…

When people contribute to the safety, well-being, and resilience of their communities, they are participating in something bigger than themselves; they are working toward a society that reflects their goals…