"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.
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…
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 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!
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.
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.
