Research

Birthing healthy babies begins with healthy people, and a healthy nation requires equity to reach reproductive justice.

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Since ED and cardiovascular disease are correlated, known strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease—for instance, the Mediterranean diet—might also help prevent ED.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare gross inequities in health care access and use bolstered by myriad strictures placed upon immigrant communities under the Trump administration.

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Socioeconomic inequities and systemic racism frequently impact health and health care access, resulting in a higher burden of disease and mortality in Black, Hispanic, and other vulnerable communities.

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After George Floyd’s death, search results about police reform increased by 3668% in every state, reflecting greater active interest in reform initiatives.

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Athletes who experience sudden loss of sport, due to injury or other circumstances, tend to dissociate from their athletic identity. This dissolution can increase their risk for depression.

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When we fail to address health disparities and root those disparities in archaic notions of human difference, we do so at the peril of the populations we claim we want to help. And, in turn, science itself can be part of the problem.

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Media coverage of incidents of gun violence often focuses on characteristics of individual perpetrators. Contextual factors, including gun access and violent crime at the population level, receive far less attention.

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The US court system is currently set up in a way that inherently retraumatizes survivors, subjecting them to painful experiences that echo and aggravate the original trauma they survived.

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Solving seemingly intractable and long-lasting health issues requires a health care system that is wise, compassionate, humble, and just—all virtues that our system does not reflect.

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