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HBCUs

UNCF Report Reveals Social Mobility Made More Possible at HBCUs

"HBCUs Transforming Generations: Social Mobility Outcomes for HBCU Alumni," was the focus of Thursday's Twitter town hall.

Health

UMD Researchers Lead Project on Boosting Health Literacy in Underserved Communities

Health

New Building at U of I College of Medicine Rockford To Address Rural Health Care Shortage

Health

University of Alabama Focuses on Diverse Communities With $4M Rural Health Care Initiative

Opinion

Lessons From My Journey

Other News

Black Opioid Deaths Increase Faster Than Whites, Spurring Calls For Treatment Equity

Students

Discrimination Impacts Mental Health and Alcohol Use in Black Students

Study argues that Black students who engage in excessive alcohol use, experience negative social and health effects.

Disparities

UI Assistant Professor Martha Carvour Launches Health Equity Projects

Martha Carvour, assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, received funding from the University of Iowa to launch campus and community-wide projects that aim to alleviate inequities in health care. “This is a really critically important time to think about health equity,” Carvour said. “The COVID pandemic has highlighted a lot of long-standing inequities […]

Disparities

Life Expectancy in Colorado Fell Sharply During the Pandemic, Especially for People of Color

So many Coloradans died of COVID-19 and related causes, including drug overdoses, that life expectancy statistics fell dramatically this past year. The drop was most alarming among communities of color, where enough Hispanic and Black residents died in the pandemic that both groups’ life expectancy statistics fell by about four years. The drop among white […]

Disparities

Black People Continue to Lag Behind in COVID Vaccinations

Black people in the city of Philadelphia, the nation’s largest predominantly Black county, are lagging far behind white people when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations, the Washington Post reports. Read More

Disparities

Study Names Temple University Hospital the Most Racially Inclusive in Pa.; Many Urban Hospital Markets Lag Behind

The Lown Institute, a nonpartisan health care think tank based in Boston, has ranked Temple University Hospital the most racially inclusive hospital in Pennsylvania and the 13th most racially inclusive hospital in the United States. The 700-bed hospital in the heart of North Philadelphia is the major education and teaching center for the Lewis Katz School […]

Disparities

‘Getting a Clearer Picture’: Black Americans on the Factors That Overcame Their Vaccine Hesitancy

Richard J. Sylvia Jr. did not get an annual flu shot, so he wondered, why take the coronavirus vaccination? He understood Covid-19 was far more contagious and deadly, but as someone who had worked at a data center in a health clinic, he also knew that clinical trials for vaccines always took longer than the […]

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