Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
African Americans know, perhaps the most, what it means to be the first to be heavily recruited yet neglected by biomedicine.
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Read more: Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health
Government and public health officials must aggressively work to end structural racism and revise laws that create racial inequalities.
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Read more: COVID-19 and the ‘Essential’ Yet Underappreciated Front-Line Health Care Worker COVID-19 and the ‘Essential’ Yet Underappreciated Front-Line Health Care Worker
On the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic response, there is an often forgotten workforce that is largely Black and Brown and female.
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Read more: Black Women Can’t Breathe Black Women Can’t Breathe
Racism in health care, expressed through implicit and explicit biases, is the ultimate form of suffocation.
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Read more: Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium
Today, medicine and the health care system embody discourses of power that rival the law. Will these discourses inevitably serve to oppress BIPOC?
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Read more: June Medical v. Russo Reflects Ongoing Struggle with Black Women’s Constitutional Equality June Medical v. Russo Reflects Ongoing Struggle with Black Women’s Constitutional Equality
Just beneath the surface, the law at issue represented a continuation of Louisiana’s historic resistance to sex and race equality.
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Read more: The SSTAR Initiative: A Policy Proposal for a Full, Equitable Recovery from COVID-19 The SSTAR Initiative: A Policy Proposal for a Full, Equitable Recovery from COVID-19
Full recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require new policy that promotes equity and streamlines access to social services.
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Read more: The Health Equity Failures of Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Reopening Plan The Health Equity Failures of Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Reopening Plan
Reopening involves disproportionate risks to the health of some residents over others, and the State’s push forward fails to adequately address these risks.
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Read more: COVID-19, Mask Requirements, and Racial Discrimination COVID-19, Mask Requirements, and Racial Discrimination
As a counter-measure to the COVID-19 pandemic, should wearing masks in public be required or merely recommended?
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Read more: Policy Roundup: Improving Maternal Health Outcomes for Black Women Policy Roundup: Improving Maternal Health Outcomes for Black Women
By Alexa Richardson Data has long shown alarming rates of maternal mortality for black women in the United States, with deaths three to four times the rate for white women. Such deaths are not accounted for by differences in education or income, and systemic racism, including racial bias within the healthcare system, is believed to…
