Health Disparities

First Opinion By Warren Kibbe and Giselle Corbie-Smith

The U.S. needs to engage communities around BIPOC data

First Opinion By Andrew Dreyfus and Sandhya Rao

Health plans, insurers need to make addressing racial inequities in health care part of their core work

First Opinion By Gary Shapiro

Broadband access: Health care’s newest challenge

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

First Opinion By Carlos Irwin A. Oronce

Health disparities for Filipinxs in health care are disguised by data aggregation

Health By Isabella Cueto

In ‘Unequal Cities,’ authors aim to debunk the idea that genetics, rather than racism, causes health disparities

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action

The Readout LOUD By Adam Feuerstein and Meg Tirrell

Listen: Health equity ‘tourism,’ an $11B biopharma acquisition, & a bony Covid protest

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur and Usha Lee McFarling

STAT+ Conversation: How medicine’s biggest journals are confronting racism

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

‘It’s never one-size-fits all’: Health tech leaders look to design to make care more equitable

Health By Olivia Goldhill

‘Delta has been brutal’: Covid-19 variant is decimating rural areas already reeling from the pandemic

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A community pioneer lost, and remembered

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The land as medicine

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The Guardian of the Glades

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Health By Isabella Cueto

Black children have more complications during appendectomies and incur higher costs, study shows

Health By Helen Branswell

A conversation with Bill Gates on how public health has fared in the midst of the pandemic

First Opinion By Jennifer S. Bard and Chloe Reichel

Covid-19 booster shot distribution must learn from vaccine roll-out mistakes

First Opinion By Gaige Kerr and Susan Anenberg

The pandemic made clear who doesn’t get to breathe clean air. Now what?

First Opinion By Clare Grace

To ensure equity and accuracy, clinical research must reflect the diversity of patients

First Opinion By Chris Hemphill

Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias

First Opinion By Christina Severin and Erin McAleer

Smoothing the path to fighting food insecurity