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...
Category : Public Health
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...
Why Black Health Matters
We’ve been asked several times since our inception in 2012 why Black Health Matters, but the questions—and the vitriol—have only increased since the #BlackLivesMatter movement...
Protests Raise Fears of Coronavirus Spike
Over the weekend, protests over the death of George Floyd rolled across the country from Miami to Los Angeles, from Washington, D.C. to Minneapolis, from...
Racial Disparities in the Time of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic plays out, researchers are looking for clues about why the disease causes such disparate outcomes, from people with no symptoms to...
COVID-19: Finding Safety When Home Isn’t Safe
As cities across the globe began to lock down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of domestic abuse began to rise. In Seattle, one of the earliest...
Coronavirus Heroes: Master Mask Maker
The nationwide shortage of protective face masks for those treating coronavirus patients has reached crisis levels. But the chief nurse executive of San Antonio’s University...
