the lack of health equity in the United States was a subject of concern for advocates, scholars, and health professionals. For example, in 1899 sociologist W. E. B. DuBois noted in his book The ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.

At Bryn Mawr College, Cindy Sousa researches how trauma, violence, and climate change affect low-income communities, immigrants, and refugees, with the goal of improving health care and social ...

As the Trump administration attempts to cut funding for DEI efforts and research, one panelist said "we are going to keep ...

The MHERC generates new knowledge on the social, behavioral, and biological mechanisms of health disparities and health equity, with an emphasis on developing and testing interventions to reduce these ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for economic equity found expression in the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, a movement to create a "Beloved Community" where justice and opportunity were ...

“Health equity is basically all of public health ... Some asked their supervisors whether they also needed to remove books from their offices. The ambiguity of the federal directives ...

Achieving health equity requires coalition. Grassroots movements, unions, and advocacy organizations can unite diverse groups around shared goals, amplifying their voices to help achieve systemic ...

Welcome to the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute, which was created in response to the crisis of race-based health disparities, especially in African Americans who live on the city’s East ...

At Drexel University College of Medicine, health equity research and innovation bridges the gap between health care delivery, medical research and health care education in the Philadelphia community ...