Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids
Dec. 20, 2022... An unvaccination crisis is brewing that will disproportionately harm America's children and follow them into adulthood.
The pediatrician as advocate: Rhea Boyd on making clinical work about community needs
April 13, 2022... "That idea of a pediatrician as not just a doctor, but an advocate, solidified in my mind as a young person. I can't actually remember wanting to be anything else," said Rhea Boyd.
Rhea Boyd
Feb. 16, 2022... Boyd, a pediatrician, is a tireless advocate for children’s health, especially when it comes to providing a voice for marginalized communities. She studies, writes, and teaches about the health impacts of harmful policing and child poverty, and helped the Academic Pediatric Association develop a national child poverty curriculum. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Boyd…
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
Sept. 23, 2021... A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research, often white and already well-funded, are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.
The 36 best books and podcasts on health and science to check out this summer
July 6, 2021... The STAT summer book list is back: Check out recommendations for great reads (and podcasts) from the likes of Anthony Fauci, @CDCDirector, @ChelseaClinton, STAT readers and staff, and more!
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
April 6, 2021... A JAMA podcast — whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine — is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.
A user’s guide: How to talk to those hesitant about the Covid-19 vaccine
March 26, 2021... STAT spoke with experts on the frontlines to create this guide on how best to handle difficult conversations about vaccine hesitancy. Their suggestions may surprise you.