Health Equity Archives

05.21.2024

Health Equity

Public Health’s Compensation Crisis

The U.S. is facing a mass exodus of young public health workers. Salary discrepancies between the private and public sectors are not helping the problem.

Fellow Heather Sherr

05.21.2024

Health Equity

Commercializing Science

Commercialization offers incentives for the research required to make advances in science. But it also separates those with fortunes from those less fortunate.

Guest Author Sandro Galea

Editor Michael Stein

05.20.2024

Racial Inequalities in COVID-19 Early Prison Release

While the total prison population decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of Black people in state prisons increased.

Fellow Lia Musumeci

05.17.2024

Decoding the Violence of Neighborhoods

Prolonged exposure to violence can have profound health implications, affecting individuals and generations.

Fellow Jude Sleiman

05.17.2024

Empowering Rural Youth

Children living in rural communities had slightly lower well-being scores than children living in urban communities, with less access to familial and social support structures.

Fellow Dani Weissert

05.16.2024

Health Equity

Primary Care Deserts and Their Risks

Despite efforts to recruit physicians to areas that lack adequate health services, many primary care deserts still exist across the country, preventing patients from receiving timely care.

Fellow Heather Sherr

05.14.2024

Health Equity

The Public Trust Problem

On bad apples and missteps by the good apples.

Guest Author Sandro Galea

Editor Michael Stein

05.09.2024

Understanding Police Officer-Perpetrated Domestic Violence

We still have much to learn about police-perpetrated domestic violence, but the power imbalances and the precarious situation of survivors are urgent.

Guest Author Brian Stanley

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