Rooting Out Systemic Racism in America
Keon Gilbert is an associate professor in behavioral science and health education at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Justice, and co-editor of...
Category : Public Health
Inequality Kills
In the United States, life expectancy at birth, a common way to measure a country’s health, rose steadily for decades—it was 69.9 years for a...
Air Pollution Makes COVID-19 Worse
Growing evidence points to a link between air pollution and increased vulnerability to COVID-19. At the same time, the United States Environmental Protection Agency recently...
Black and Brown Health Care Workers More Likely to Get COVID-19
Health care workers of color were more likely to care for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, more likely to report using inadequate or reused...
Minority Students at Rundown Schools Face Risks Amid Talk of Reopening Classrooms
Classrooms, gyms and cafeterias at schools across the United States have remained empty for months now. And despite some districts beginning to reopen, many others...
Lag in Coronavirus Research Puts Pregnant Women at Risk
After months of asserting pregnant women were not at high risk for the coronavirus, the CDC recently released a study with sobering findings for expectant...
What Is Herd Immunity?
Curious as to whether herd immunity against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) might slow the spread of the disease? Understand how herd immunity works and...
Talking to Kids About Racial Bias
Children are always watching and listening, but since protests for racial justice have spread across the globe, they’re witnessing, absorbing and internalizing possibly more than...
Racism Is a Public Health Issue
Being black is bad for your health. And pervasive racism is the cause. That’s the conclusion of multiple public health studies over more than three...
How We Can Breathe Again: From Protest to Solutions
Let us be clear: We need law enforcement. That is undeniably true. Having been abducted at gunpoint and saved by a white police officer, I...
