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Health
·4 min read

How COVID-19 Exposed the Racism in Healthcare

Systemic racism is pervasive. It's just as present in our criminal justice system as it is in our healthcare and education system.
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Criminal JusticeHealth
·4 min read

The Police Use of Ketamine in Arrests Faces Scrutiny

Police face criticism for their use of ketamine in the arrest of individuals they mislabel as "aggressive" following the death of Elijah McClain.
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Georgina QuachHealth
·7 min read

Understand intergenerational trauma.

The body always remembers. Like other children of Vietnamese war refugees, I understand how hardships and inconceivable loss leave marks. Psychologists in the 1990s found roughly half of Holocaust survivors were still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience). Emerging studies show that, in communities of survivors, trauma may also be passed onto subsequent generations through epigenetic changes, where the mechanism by which our body reads DNA – not DNA itself – is altered (Stanford University). This intergenerational transfer can also be behavioral; parents with severe anxiety may model detrimental patterns of thinking and feeling.

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A row of three round pills on a blue background.
Health
·4 min read

The Opioid Crisis Didn’t Skip the Black Community

Opioid overdoses are rising during the COVID-19 pandemic and have disproportionately impacted Black people. Harm reduction programs can help mitigate the overdose epidemic.
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Two people near a food display inside a New York bodega.
HealthNeighborhoods
·5 min read

The Answer to America’s Food Desert Problem

Underserved communities are disproportionately becoming zoned as food deserts as access to grocery stores becomes limited.
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A bundle of sage burns on a dish.
HealthIsiah Magsino
·4 min read

Preserving Palo Santo and White Sage for Posterity

The mainstream overconsumption of Palo Santo and white sage has made it impossible for Native communities to practice sacred traditions.
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HealthTiffany Onyejiaka
·6 min read

End “race norming” in healthcare.

Over the past year, the global pandemic has highlighted the vast racial disparities in medical treatment in the U.S. Many of its elements are more subtle; difficult to see if you don’t experience it first-hand. But some are more blatant – like racial correction factors. In medicine, equations and algorithms can often be used to diagnose or screen patients. Racial correction factors are when physicians adjust the measurements or risk calculations for patients based on their race. Despite the fact that race is a social construct, many medical providers hold on to the idea of race as a biological variable. This has a severe, sometimes fatal impact on people of color.

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Health
·4 min read

Demand global vaccine justice.

American vaccine “charity” comes too late for those who died because the U.S. blocked vaccine imports.
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HealthLGBTQ+Tiffany Onyejiaka
·4 min read

Ensure access to PrEP.

Addressing the racial and geographic disparities that make PrEP less accessible.
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HealthMelissa Shah
·5 min read

Avoid spiritual bypassing.

​Spiritual bypassing is to sidestep dealing with pain, strong feelings, trauma, etc. It can be helpful when we are not ready to confront difficult emotions in our lives. However, it is commonly used to avoid acknowledging privilege because doing so is inherently messy, painful, and requires continued awareness.

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