The Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine with support from the Global Forum on Innovation in Health ...

Black people are four times more likely to die of COVID-19 complications than white people. Black women are three to four times as likely to die of pregnancy-related complications as white women. From ...

Black and Hispanic children receive universally worse medical care than their white peers, starting from the moment they’re born and spanning across all specialties, according to a comprehensive ...

Steven H. Woolf ( [email protected]) is the director of the Center on Human Needs and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond. Paula Braveman ...

Health disparities or health inequalities are preventable differences in health outcomes in groups or populations as a result of social structure, access to services and infrastructure, disease burden ...

Racism – and the chronic stress it causes – leads to poor health among African Americans. It may change the way genes are expressed, leading to increased levels of dangerous stress hormones. While ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Black women die from uterine cancer at twice the rate of white women and is another example of racial health… Dr. Colin Greene, Virginia's health commissioner, earned condemnation after he rejected ...