Advance Health Equity by Getting Vaccine Distribution Right
Who will get the COVID-19 vaccine soonest, and will those decisions be based on equitable criteria?
Race
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Read more: The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19 The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19
In recent months, public health guidance from the CDC has become a site of political reckoning.
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Read more: COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health
Together, food insecurity and COVID-19 have proven to be a deadly combination for Black and Brown people.
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Read more: Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19 Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected domestic workers, such as home health care workers, house cleaners, and child care workers.
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Read more: COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality
A focus on immunity as a yardstick for return to work will only serve to widen the gulf of economic inequality in the U.S.
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Read more: Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has given renewed importance and urgency to the need for racial and gender diversity in clinical trials.
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Read more: The Cost of Exclusion in Psychedelic Research The Cost of Exclusion in Psychedelic Research
The lack of diversity among research participants can have significant consequences on generalizability and distribution of treatments.
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Read more: What Psychedelic Research Can Learn from Science, and What It Can Teach What Psychedelic Research Can Learn from Science, and What It Can Teach
The field has a frustrating tendency to make lofty claims about psychedelics that stray from the realities and limitations of the data.
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Read more: Understanding the Role of Race in Health: Conclusions from the Symposium Understanding the Role of Race in Health: Conclusions from the Symposium
Through social movement advocacy and engagement, BIPOC can create their own narrative of medical need and activism.
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Read more: What the Study of Religion Can Teach Us About Psychedelics What the Study of Religion Can Teach Us About Psychedelics
As a scholar of religion who cares deeply about this psychedelic renaissance, I offer two points of caution from the perspective of my field.
