Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
Understanding the Role of Race in Health
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Read more: When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the tradeoffs at stake for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) seeking reliable health advice.
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Read more: School Discipline is a Public Health Crisis School Discipline is a Public Health Crisis
Too often, policies and practices in schools that create and compound health inequities are narrated as falling outside health law and policy.
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Read more: The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia
During the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of trying to extinguish racist attitudes, the Trump administration has spearheaded ways to “other” Asian Americans.
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Read more: A Critical Race Perspective on Housing and Health A Critical Race Perspective on Housing and Health
Social, economic, and environmental factors account for the vast majority of health outcomes. And housing encompasses many of these factors.
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Read more: Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and the Contested Scope of Public Health Law Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and the Contested Scope of Public Health Law
Debates exist over whether structural racism is a social determinant of health, and whether dismantling it is within the scope of public health law.
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Read more: Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships
Considering the cross-cutting nature of racism as a social determinant of health, medical-legal partnerships can and should address it directly.
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Read more: How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities
Scholarship on the social determinants of health is missing an account of how communities change the legal environments that produce poor health outcomes.
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Read more: Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials 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.
