Popular Press Articles

BDG (2013): A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable

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The Atlantic (2015): Genes Don’t Cause Racial Health Disparities, Society Does

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The Atlantic (2013): How Racism is Bad for our Bodies

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The New York Times (2018): How to Talk about 'Race' and Genetics

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Andrea Smith's Blog (2013): The Problem With “Privilege”

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The ZM, Zimbabwe News (2016): USA's Biggest Hospital Sued $1B For STI Experiments on Black People
 

Aljazeera America (2013): Weed all about it: The origins of the word ‘marijuana’

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The Atlantic (2017): The Destructiveness of Call-Out Culture on Campus

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APHA (2020): Racism Is an Ongoing Public Health Crisis that Needs Our Attention Now

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Reuters (2020): George Floyd - America's Racial Inequality in Numbers

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The Verge (2020): Telehealth Wasn't Designed for Non-English Speakers

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Global Health Now (2020): Why the Racism Roiling America is a Public Health Issue

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Environmental Health News (2020): Environmental Injustice in Pittsburgh - Poor Minority Neighborhoods See Higher Rates of Deaths from Air Pollution

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Nieman Reports (2019). Why We Banned the Word 'Ethnic'

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Closler (2020): Doing Something or Doing Nothing - Health Disparities, Racial Justice, and the Risk of Failing to Meet this Moment

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New Scientist (2020): Minority Scientists Still Face Many Forms of Institutional Racism

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African Arguments (2020): An Open Letter from Prominent Africans - We Cannot Remain Silent 

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Medium (2018): The Picture is Actually White Supremacy at Work

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Philadelphia Inquirer (2020): Systemic Racism is a Public Health Issue. Community Health Workers are Proven to Help.

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Carto. (2020). U.S. Social Determinants of Health Atlas  - Map of the Month. 

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NPR. (2020). CDC Employees Call Out Agency's 'Toxic Culture of Racial Aggressions' (includes full letter from employees)

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APHA Int'l Health Section. (2019). The Forgotten Health Inequality: Languages and Medical Information.

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Kaiser Family Foundation. (2019). Key Facts on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity.

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APHA (2020): Declarations on racism as a public health issue, by state

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San Francisco Chronicle (2020): Does racism make us sick? Amid a national reckoning, the question gains new importance

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New York Times (2020): Pollution is killing Black Americans. This community fought back.

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Kaiser Family Foundation (2020). Disparities in health and health care: Five key questions and answers

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Citi GS. (2020). Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps. The Economics Costs of Black Inequality in the U.S.

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STAT. (2020). From a Small Town in North Carolina to Big-City Hospitals, How Software Infuses Racism into U.S. Health Care.

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Reuters. (2020). 5 Takeaways from STAT's Investigation of Bias in the Use of Health-Cost Analytics Software.

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NPR. (2020). A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors to Fight Racial Injustice and Misinformation.

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Vox. (2020). How To Talk Someone Out of Bigotry.

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Kaiser Health News. (2020). What Doctors Aren't Always Taught - How To Spot Racism in Health Care.

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Health Policy Watch. (2020). Addressing Global Nurses' Shortage Means Tackling Ethics of Migration, Working Conditions, and Gender Equity.

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Vox. (2020). The Trauma of Thanksgiving for Native Communities During a Pandemic.

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Scientific American. (2020). Take Racism Out of Medical Algorithms.

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Johns Hopkins Public Health. (2020). Fall 2020 Newsletter: Hope in a Racialized Society.

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Axios. (2020). Recreating Racism in VR to Fight Real Racism.

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UIHI. (2020). Urban Indian Dictionary.

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Univ of Washington. (nd). Interactive Maps of Race in Seattle.

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APHA. (2021). Racial Equity Fact Sheet.

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The Atlantic (2017): The Destructiveness of Call-Out Culture on Campus

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Tolerance.org (2020): Teaching Tolerance Without Inducing Trauma

 

AACN (2020): AACN Statement on Academic Nursing's Call for Liberty and Justice for All

 

Medium (2020): White Academia: Do Better. Higher Education Has a Problem. It's Called White Supremacy

 

EdWeek (2020): How to Root Out Anti-Black Racism from Your School

 

Nursing Community Coalition (2020): Nursing Community Coalition Members United in Fight Against Racism and Injustice

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Harvard Business Review (2020): Academic Isn't a Safe Haven for Conversations abour Race and Racism

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UNESCO (Int'l Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean). (2020). The George Floyd Case and Racism in Higher Education Systems and Institutions.

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University World News (2020): The myth of meritocracy in America's university system

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The Verge (2020): How the world's biggest general science society is tackling racism

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Med Page Today (2020): Study backs Flexner Report's negative impact on Black physicians

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BBC (2020): The medical school trying to become anti-racist

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Nature (2020): Universities scrub names of racist leaders. Students say it's a first step.

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National Academics of Medicine (2020): Educating health professions educators to address the "-isms"

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Undark (2020): After years of gains, Black STEM representationis falling. Why? 

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Nature (2020): Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism.

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Health Affiars (2020): Addressing systemic racial inequality in the health care workforce

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Health Affairs (2020): On racism: A new standard for publishing on racial health inequities

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Nature. (2020). How We Formed a "Journal Club" for Equity in Science.

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International Higher Education. (2020). #BlackLivesMatter: A New Age of Student Activism.

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Stanford Social Review. (2020). The Bias of "Professionalism" Standards.

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CIARS. (2020). Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Schooling, Education, and Beyond: Resource Guide.

STAT (2020): A years-long push to remove racist bias from kidney testing gains new ground

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Public Health Post (2020): Race and algorithms

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JAMA Network Open (2020): Evaluation of racial disparities in hospice use and end-of-life treatment intensity in the REGARDS cohort

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Today (2020): How your zip code affects your health as a Black woman

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Hypertension (2020); Discrimination and hypertension risk among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

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Nature. (2020). Cancer Doesn't See Color, but the Pipeline Does.

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ProPublica. (2020). New Bill Aims to End Racial Disparities in Amputations.

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STAT. (2020). Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Are Bad. They're Even Worse in Cancer.

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ProPublica. (2020). Tethered to the Machine. (racial bias and dialysis)

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The Guardian (2015): Guatemalans deliberately infected with STDs

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Huff Post (2015): Meet The Midwife Starting The First Native American Birth Center

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Aljazeera America (2015): Los Angeles midwives aim to end racial disparities at birth

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Rewire News (2014):  When You Try to Stop it, Nothing Happens: A Q&A on the History of Coerced Sterilizations in California

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New York Times Magazine (2018). Black Mothers

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Seattle Times (2020): The Case for Midwives - Washington State Leads the Nation in Midwifery Care

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GAO (2020): Maternal Mortality - Trends in Pregnancy-Related Deaths and Federal Efforts to Reduce Them

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Black Enterprise (2020): This woman launched a virtual postpartum doula service for Black mothers

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The Times-Picayune (LA) (2020): 65 Louisiana women died pregnancy-connected deaths. Almost all were preventable, report finds.

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Vox (2020): America is failing Black moms during the pandemic

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Washington Post (2020): The number of pregnant Latinas with COVID-19 is staggering. And a warning sign, doctors say.

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Tampa Bay Tribune (2020): When a Black baby is born, the doctor's race matters

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CBS News (2020): How Black doulas are fighting the maternal mortality crisis

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MMWR. (2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fetal Deaths - United States, 2015 - 2017.

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The Cut. (2020). Reports of ICES's Forced Hysterectomies are Nothing New in America.

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Union of Concerned Scientists. (2020). Hysterectomies at an ICE Facility and the Complicity of Science in Reproductive Rights Violations.

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19th News. (2020). "Belly of the Beast" Spotlights Forced Sterilizations in California Prisons. (see Multimedia page for Link to Documentary)

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NPR. (2020). The Philippines Has a Policy Against Home Births. It's Not Playing Well in a Pandemic.

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The Commonwealth Fund. (2020). Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care in the United States Compared to 100 Other Developed Countries.

STAT (2020). 'It Just Weighs On Your Psyche': Black Americans on Mental Health, Trauma, and Resilience

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American Psychological Association. (n.d.) Health Disparities and Stress Fact Sheet.

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Tampa Bay Tribune. (2020). Blacks, Hispanics, and Men Get Less Mental Health Care, New CDC Data Says.

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Reuters. (2020). New York City To Try Responding to Mental Health Calls Without Police.

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American Academy of Pediatrics (2020): Timing of the diagnosis of autism in African American children

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NEJM (2020): When actions speak louder than words - Racism and sickle cell disease

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Spectrum News. (2020). How Autism Researchers Can Better Reach Black Families.

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BMJ Global Health (2020): Global health degrees - At what cost?

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BMJ Global Health (2020): Decolonizing global health - If not now, when?

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Global Health Council (2020): Black voices - Decolonizing global health (video)

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The European Sting (part of the World Economic Forum; 2020): How can we overcome the racial barriers to global health parity?

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Medium (2020): 'I spent most of my career listening to white folks complain about Africa and Africans'

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The Nation's Health (APHA). (2020). Equity at Center of Revised 10 Essential Public Health Services.

Instagram (2020): Racism, not race, is a risk factor for infectious diseases (posting by a physician)

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Africa's Centers for Disease Control

AJPH. (2019). Since 1619: The Lingering Imprint of Slavery on American Public Health (podcast)

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CNN. (2020). Everyday Words and Phrases that Have Racist Connotations.

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The Guardian. (2020). "The Worshipping of Whiteness": Why Racist Symbols Persist in America.

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NYT. (2020). Our Democracy's Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make them True.

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Facing the Truth (Bill Moyers). (2014). The Case for Reparations - Interview with Ta-Neihisi Coates.

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KCTS9. (Various). PNW Explained. Links to short videos on various PNW issues, many addressed community inequity

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National Day of Racial Healing. (n.d.)

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Seattle U. Office of Divisity and Inclusion. (2020). Juneteenth and Social Progress.