Fusing science and social justice, this book explores how systemic injustice takes a physical ... Dr. Sheppard served as the Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement and Health ...

Health disparities are the result of differences in access to healthcare, quality of care and other social determinants of health. They can be caused by a variety of factors, including race ...

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 ...

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that when people understand how income ...

Duke study uses stories about water crisis in Michigan to point to importance of reframing the language of racial inequality Stories involving poverty and race are far more likely to get public ...

There’s a long history of health disparities impacting Black and brown ... some of this history and its current-day impacts in her book “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in ...