A new study examining the associations between racial and ethnic discrimination and COVID-19 vaccine refusal has found that 1 in 10 people from ethnic minority groups who refused a vaccine has experienced racial discrimination ...
May 5, 2022
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named racism as a serious public health threat, and UO philosopher Camisha Russell's latest research examines racism in health care and offers some ideas about how to address ...
May 4, 2022
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A new cohort study follows women through pregnancy and birth to study if a SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19, is associated with poor pregnancy outcomes. In this part of the study, Mount Sinai researchers ...
May 2, 2022
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In Minnesota, babies of U.S.-born Black pregnant people suffer twice the rate of low-birth weight and other adverse birth issues as their white counterparts. University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) researchers ...
Apr 26, 2022
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The effects of racism and sexism lead to higher maternal mortality rates among Black women in the U.S. than previously realized, according to new research from Associate Professor of Sociology and Law Evelyn J. Patterson ...
Apr 18, 2022
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The combined effects of systemic and interpersonal racism layered on top of negative experiences within the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with depression and anxiety among Black people in the postpartum period, according ...
Apr 13, 2022
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A recent study from North Carolina State University underscores the feedback loop between racism, stress and anti-racist activism in young Black people. Specifically, the study highlights that experiencing racism is stressful ...
Mar 17, 2022
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Black women who frequently experience racism before age 20 are at higher risk of reporting depressive symptoms in adulthood than those who had fewer experiences of racism in early life, according to a study by the University ...
Feb 25, 2022
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Last month the British Medical Journal published an editorial calling for racism to be listed as a leading cause of death among Black people in the United States.
Feb 16, 2022
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The more strongly physicians and medical researchers believe that racism negatively affects health, the more likely they are to intervene when they observe a racist encounter or policy, according to a new study published ...
Feb 14, 2022
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