racism

First Opinion By Michelle Lee

How a rally after the Atlanta shootings helped heal Asian American health care workers

First Opinion By Jesper Ke, Kate E. Lee, and Hueyjong Shih

In light of anti-Asian attacks, medicine needs to listen to Asian American trainees

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Uché Blackstock on diversity in medicine, rejecting Harvard, and a ‘life-altering’ decision

Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Meghan Markle described racism as a toxic stressor during her pregnancy. I can relate

Health By Andrew Joseph

Doctors, researchers push academia’s ivory tower to start rewarding diversity work in promotion decisions 

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Lauren Powell on the intersection of Covid-19 and racism

First Opinion By Daniel E. Dawes and Brian C. Castrucci

Back to ‘normal’ isn’t good enough

First Opinion By Julian L. Watkins

To get the Covid-19 vaccine right, we must close the confidence gap and stop pathologizing communities of color

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

Leading genetics experts call for more racial representation in their industry

Pharma By Nicholas St. Fleur

Pharma trade group issues guidelines for improving diversity of clinical trial participants

First Opinion By Chase T.M. Anderson

I’m a Black psychiatrist. I’m never prepared for the emptiness and grief I feel when police shoot a Black person

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

For Black women, the isolation of infertility is compounded by barriers to treatment

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

Two Black university leaders urged their campuses to join a Covid-19 vaccine trial. The backlash was swift

Health By Gabrielle Glaser

Inequality ‘surrounds you’: A Black doctor returns to hard-hit Louisiana after treating and contracting Covid-19 in New York

Health By Natalya Ortolano

‘We do belong here’: The scientist behind #BlackInNeuro hopes to transform a Twitter movement into a lasting community

First Opinion By Megan R. Mahoney

It’s time to stop using skin color and race in medicine and see patients for who they really are

Health By Casey Ross

Study finds racial bias in the government’s formula for distributing Covid-19 aid to hospitals

First Opinion By Annelle Primm, Courtney Lang, and Keris Jän Myrick

Say her name: Don’t erase Bebe Moore Campbell from National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

The Readout LOUD By Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Rebecca Robbins

‘We have to do a better job’: How structural racism in medicine harms both doctors and patients

The Readout LOUD By Damian Garde, Rebecca Robbins, and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Coronavirus vaccine data, saving the U.S.’s pandemic response, and systemic racism in medicine

Health By Alexander Spinelli

How should hospitals respond to bias from patients? Experts offer a playbook

First Opinion By Diana M. Cejas

To thrive, Black and Latinx physicians need their communities

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

Tech giants are well-positioned to help close racial gaps in health. They have little to show for it

First Opinion By Ruth S. Shim

Structural racism is why I’m leaving organized psychiatry

Health By Shraddha Chakradhar

Activists, artists, and public health academics collaborate to tackle racism’s impact on health