Equity
Topic
Equity
“Digital redlining … continues to perpetuate existing inequities, resulting in diminished access to essential services like health care, education, and job opportunities.”
Monica L. Wang
Why Black patients are less likely to get life-saving kidney transplants
Innate bias, residential segregation, and the high cost of donation are all barriers.
The neurological impact of being Black in the U.S.
A new theory about how racism may lead to faster aging
Of mice and women
Decades of male-dominated studies leave women at risk.
Making the invisible visible
How better data, more access, and community-based solutions can drive health equity
Digital redlining perpetuates health inequity. Here’s how we fix it.
Not all internet service is created equal, especially for marginalized communities.
Black residents in Cancer Alley try what may be a last legal defense to curb toxic pollution
In St. James Parish, Louisiana, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.
A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. 35 years later, there’s still no sidewalk.
“Local government takes money from the neighborhood but does not invest in it.”
Researchers tried to fix a racist lung test. It got complicated.
The new test deems many patients of color sicker and White ones healthier.