Jori Fortson

Evidence points to “deaths of despair” across all racial and ethnic groups. Efforts to mitigate cultural despair should target populations of young adults.

Health authorities declared that measles had been eliminated from the nation in 2000, yet the virus has reemerged at alarmingly high rates in 2019.

Sexual violence particularly inflicts suffering and pain on females, low-income individuals, and people who identify as LGBT.

Understanding the factors that influence teen reproductive health is essential as evidence grows in the “safe sex” vs. “abstinence only” education debate.

Communities of color experience pollution inequities as Whites experience less exposure than Black and Hispanic people to the air pollution they create.

A 2019 study shows that public health schools’ maternity leave policies are too often not in keeping with their proclaimed values.

In the United States, a person can be held in jail awaiting trial for days, weeks, months, or years because they cannot afford to pay bail bond. 

Police violence was lowest in privileged neighborhoods and highest with largest concentrations of low-income residents and residents of color.