by lindaoppenheim | Aug 10, 2018 | Podcast
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine, about the fact that black mothers have a higher mortality rate than white mothers and the effect of racism. To hear the interview, click...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 13, 2017 | Opinion, Podcast
In an op ed in the New York Times (November 12, 2017), Douglas Jacobs refers to the “[m]ore than 700 studies on the link between discrimination and health . . . published since 2000. This body of work establishes a connection between discrimination and physical...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 21, 2016 | Broadcast
An NPR segment reported on a “study, which involved 150 African-Americans living in Tallahassee, Fla., found that knowing someone who had experienced racial discrimination was associated with genetic markers that may affect risk for high blood pressure. The...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 12, 2016 | Article
African-American women are 7.5 years biologically “older” than white women because of extreme stress, health experts say. Read the full article here.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 6, 2016 | Article, Broadcast
Research has documented that black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans. New research from the University of Virginia suggests that disparities in pain management may be attributable in part to bias. In a study of medical...