NASHVILLE, TN – Vaccine hesitancy has been in the headlines for months. News reports generally frame the issue as obstinate people who are misinformed. A recent study by Tufts University researchers found Whites are more […]
By Linda Goler Blount and Dr. Michelle McMurry-HeathBlack Americans have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Yet we’re also much less likely to take the vaccines. In the District of Columbia, for example, Blacks account for […]
After a 2020 Vanderbilt University Medical Center study showed women have a difficult time accessing treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), investigators analyzed comments received from the study’s participants to further shed light on barriers […]
By Katelynn White The coronavirus has created challenges for many people. Americans have lost their jobs. Many children have missed meals because schools are closed. Essential workers have risked their lives. Parents were forced to […]
By Kenneth E. Thorpe The World Trade Organization is considering a petition from several dozen countries to nullify intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines. Supporters — which now includes the United States — claim the […]
Posted on May 26, 2021 by LCDR Lusi Martin-Braswell, Public Health Analyst, Office of Minority Health Growing up in Tonga, it was all but impossible not to recognize a lack of access to education, health, […]
MEMPHIS, TN — Over the years I’ve heard and read a lot about mental health being considered a stigma in the Black community. That was always disturbing to me, though it was true. For too […]
Vaccines remain humanity’s best hope of averting more widespread death and restoring society, but they cannot be looked at as an endpoint just yet. Since Pfizer’s announcement of an effective coronavirus vaccine triggered a wave of hope and […]
NASHVILLE, TN – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine for teenagers. Any day now, it is expected to approve Moderna’s vaccine for children ages 12-17. In recently […]
Dav Pushes The Va To Address Disparities In Minority Veterans’ Care, Outcomes Matt Saintsing As the nation’s largest integrated health care system, the Department of Veterans Affairs serves a growing racially and ethnically diverse […]
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