Color Coding Breast Cancer Outcomes
Women living in yellow or red areas on the HOLC’s redlining maps experienced poorer health outcomes than those living in green or blue areas.
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Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley and Kayla McKean
Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley, Ph.D., M.S., and Kayla McKean, M.Ed, lead a team developing an online sex education program targeted towards youth with higher rates of risky sexual behavior.
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Seye Abimbola
Dr. Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria, editor-in chief of BMJ Global Health, and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. He teaches and studies health system governance and knowledge practices in global health.
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Expand Voting Rights for Health: Yes or No?
Researchers measured COVID-19 case and mortality data with the burden of voting restrictions across U.S. counties with different demographic makeups.
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Outlawing Immigrants and Alienating Health
Researchers assessed how state-based immigration criminalization policies influenced how Latinx and Asian Pacific Islander citizens and noncitizens rated their health.
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Welfare Stigma
Mothers who experienced welfare stigma reported poor health.
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Malignant Debt
Cancer treatment costs, even for those with health insurance, leave many patients with staggering debt and difficult choices.
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SNAP-ping Out of CPS
States that increased access to food assistance programs reduced child protective services investigations.
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Consequences of Ageism
Adults ages 50 to 80 experienced ageism which affected their health, researchers found in a recent survey.
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Emile DeWeaver
Emile DeWeaver is an activist and author whose life sentence was commuted after 21 years for his community work in prison. The co-founder of Prison Renaissance, DeWeaver also covertly organized to pass legislation that changed the way California treats juveniles in its criminal legal system while in prison.
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