In our time, asthma is among the diseases that are most strongly determined by the structural contours of racial capitalism in the US. The current economic system and history of ‘redlining’ in US cities ensures that working-class people of color are far more likely to live in dilapidated housing or in areas with poor air quality.
Read MoreImmigrant policing has these multiple hidden health-related consequences that affect not just undocumented immigrants, but all people including their families and the hospitals on which all of us rely.
Read MoreIn order achieve vaccine equity, change must occur. Broadening the concept of health equity to include shifting decision-making power to marginalized communities, creating demand, and requiring accountability with regard to data is necessary and will improve vaccine uptake and overall health well beyond this pandemic.
Read MoreThe Global Health Security Index (GHSI), published in 2019, ranked the United States first among nations in its pandemic preparedness. This paper uses the GHSI framework to explore how systemic racism resulted United State's failure to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic adequately.
Read MoreThe United States’ long history of legislation restricting access to comprehensive health insurance, labor protections, and economic opportunities for immigrants set the stage for disproportionate morbidity and mortality during COVID-19. If we continue to erect and fortify policy barriers to the equitable distribution of healthcare and economic opportunities, the impact of COVID-19 will remain disproportionately experienced by our immigrant neighbors, colleagues, and friends.
Read MoreContrary to what a lot of people believed when we got started, not everyone eats the same. There are very large differences in individual food choices that are influenced by many different factors. Because there are these differences in what people eat, we can learn about the consequences of food choices.
Read MoreIf you are worried about being racially profiled, then public spaces like sidewalks and streets become these spaces of deportation and are avoided. When you can’t drive and you can’t walk outside your own door, you don’t see people, you don’t go to grocery stores, you don’t go to gyms, and you don’t go to churches, all things we know impact our health.
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