Kansas City and the case for restitutional medicine
How one U.S. city is approaching a way to redress structural racism and boost community health.
Equity
Building green spaces in the name of environmental justice
A former wildland firefighter shares how he's gone from fighting fire to building parks and planting trees in Los Angeles.
Revisiting the ‘Unequal Treatment’ report, 20 years later
Two decades ago, a landmark report called out racism in health care, indelibly changing the public health landscape. There is much more work to be done.
The long, low echo of apartheid in South Africa
In South Africa, persistent bias in medical schools and health care means your health is still worse if you’re Black. Because you’re Black.
Metcalfe Park: Inside structural racism’s invisible net
Living in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park neighborhood is bad for your health. It’s nobody’s fault—and everyone’s.
What science tells us about structural racism’s health impact
Research has established a clear, ongoing connection between systemic bias and health disparities.
Reparations will save Black lives
Mary Bassett, New York state health commissioner, examines the close ties between wealth and health in America. It's time, she says, for the U.S. government to pay its debt to Black Americans.
Towns are going after syringe services. The A.D.A. may be their best defense.
Local officials are using regressive zoning laws to halt the expansion of syringe services. Experts say those laws discriminate against people who use drugs.
Hemophilia shouldn’t be life-threatening – but in some places, it is
Essential drugs are out of reach for many people with rare diseases, leading to lifelong disability or death. The global drug patent and trade system perpetuates these inequities — especially for low- to middle-income countries.
Post-Roe, expanding birth control access
State lawmakers and drug companies press for easy access to birth control pills at the pharmacy — no doctor’s visit needed.