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·5 min read

How Stigmatizing Diseases Harms Public Health and Communities

Biased reporting and imagery of the monkeypox outbreak reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and mimic a history of stigmatizing disease.
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Ebony BellamyHealth
·4 min read

Cheslie Kryst and the Stigma Around Black Mental Health

The death by suicide of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst has placed a focus on Black mental health, the systemic inequities that affect it, and the stigma around getting help.
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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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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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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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Health
·5 min read

The Racial Origins of BMI

The Body Mass Index, a tool integrated into the U.S. healthcare system, was created from research that was deeply flawed and exclusive.
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2021 Year in ReviewHealth
·2 min read

Year in Review: Reshaping a Healthcare System in Disrepair

Healthcare issues were a major topic in 2021, causing communities around the U.S. to demand action to fix these inequities in the healthcare system.
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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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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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Ebony BellamyHealth
·6 min read

Fighting for Paid Sick Leave

The best way to reduce the spread of COVID-19 is for individuals to stay home when they’re feeling sick. However, this isn’t a luxury for many workers without access to paid sick leave.
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