Good health care is rooted in evidence. So is DEI.
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Evidence shows that outcomes improve when patients see doctors that look like them, yet some politicians have made DEI a target of their “anti-woke” crusade. If they succeed, the health and health care of people of color could suffer, argues physician LaShyra Nolen.
Good health care is rooted in evidence. So is DEI. | LaShyra Nolen
"Unhoused" shows us the public health crisis under our noses
Unhoused: Personal Stories & Public Health, an exhibition at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, focuses “on our failure to pay attention to the public health problem on our doorsteps,” writes critic Julia M. Klein. The link between housing and health is complex, and Klein welcomes the exhibit’s “space to contemplate individual perspectives” in a conversation otherwise often dominated by data.
Unhoused shows us the public health crisis under our noses | Julia M. Klein
Inside CRISPR’s gene editing revolution
Jennifer Doudna shared a Nobel Prize for inventing a powerful gene editing technology. What comes next for CRISPR? Jina Moore Ngarambe, HPH’s managing editor, listened in on a conversation with Doudna at Aspen Ideas: Health.
Inside CRISPR’s gene editing revolution | Jina Moore Ngarambe
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What we’re reading this week
Americans with HIV are living longer. Federal spending isn’t keeping up. | KFF Health News
California’s Bay Area is heating up. Its infrastructure isn’t designed for it. | Inside Climate News
Memphis needs affordable housing. But it’s gotten harder to build. | MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
AI gains ground with breast cancer diagnosis and prevention | Think Global Health
For more on the diversity and equity issues LaShyra Nolen talks about in her op-ed, I recommend two pieces from 2022: one on anti-racist health care by Melba Newsome, and another on racial bias in medicine by Marie Plaisime.
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8 个月Does the DEI initiative also include the American public healthcare workers abroad? - anyone here interested in learning about the Iranian American LGBTIQQ++ and public health activist in Poland-EU? ( heriknaz/admin)