Racial discrimination comes in different forms. While interpersonal discrimination is most recognizable, individuals interact across the course of their lives with structures and institutions that ...

Researchers at Michigan State University and Rutgers University will lead a nationally funded study that will examine the effects of structural racism on housing, aging, and health. In a ...

Few health care professionals would argue with the fact that vast differences exist in access to and outcomes of the care their patients receive, but the reasons why health disparities persist decades ...

Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Southern University (TSU) and UTHealth Houston will receive $2.6 million from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development to examine ...

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) published a special issue on “Structural Racism and Public Health“ on January 25, 2023, which includes research led and co-authored by multiple faculty ...

(NNPA Newswire) – A group of researchers from Rutgers University and Michigan State University have launched a major study to examine the long-term effects of structural racism on cognitive aging, ...

Some choices – such as whether you exercise, smoke, or drink – can affect your health. But there aren’t many known risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) you can control. This ...

Spanning 22 studies, the analysis illuminated housing disparities, occupational hazards, unequal health care access, economic inequality, and discriminatory industry practices and how they ...

Risk and Outcome of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections in Vaccinated Patients With Cancer: Real-World Evidence From the National COVID Cohort Collaborative The article by Carlos­ et al entitled “Linking ...

This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You ...

Social and economic disparities are linked to an increased risk for psychosis in racialized communities, new research shows. Results of a literature review of social and economic disparities in mental ...

Justices ordered a new national plan to address racial inequality, but stopped short of declaring a state of unconstitutional affairs.