Rather than asking how structural racism impacts health and healthcare, we must ask how healthcare in America—and its global reach—is structural racism.
Minority Health Disparities | Michelle’s Story
Michelle R. Simmons is a patient, mother and grandmother who understands firsthand the impact of health disparity in her family and in her community.
Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Eliminating health disparities is a broad national goal for improving the health of Americans, and part of the mission of the Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Doulas and Midwives of Color Are The Key to Reproductive and Birth Justice
By: Patricia Valoy | Contributing Editor for Science and Social Justice Last year I quit…
Race, Class, and Health
This course critically examines health status and health care disparities among racial/ethnic minority groups in…
How Racism Harms Pregnant Women – and What Can Help
Racism is making people sick — especially black women and babies, says Miriam Zoila Pérez. The doula turned journalist explores the relationship between race, class and illness and tells us about a radically compassionate prenatal care program that can buffer pregnant women from the stress that people of color face every day.
Biopolitics in Palestine: Community Health, Political Violence, and Daily Resistance
By Bram Wispelwey On June 1, 21-year-old volunteer medic Razan Al Najjar was shot and…
Life as a Nurse in Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haLU32C-A34 At the age of 27, Azza Jadalla has already lived through six wars. She…
Haiti in a Time of Cholera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02MgwqJk95Y Al-Jazeera gives an in-depth report of the origins and effects of the cholera epidemic…
Terms of Endearment: Global Racism and the Willful Impoverishment of Black and Brown People
By Joia Mukherjee Haiti, January 17, 2018. This country and people taught me what I know…