Discrimination Archives

03.30.2023 a graph of people with numbers and lines

An Eighteen Year Difference in Life Expectancy

While life expectancy across all U.S. racial groups dropped due to COVID-19, Indigenous males had the lowest life expectancy in 2020 at 63 years compared to 81 years for Asian males.

Guest Author Elaine O. Nsoesie

03.16.2023 a woman wearing glasses and a necklace

Health Equity

Katherine Flegal

Katherine Flegal is a consulting professor at Stanford University and is one of the most highly cited researchers in obesity epidemiology.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

03.09.2023 a map of the united states

Weighed Down by Discrimination

Roughly 42% of U.S. adults experience weight discrimination, yet Michigan is the only state where discrimination based on weight is illegal.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

01.09.2023 a small wooden house with a stethoscope

Health Equity

Color Coding Breast Cancer Outcomes

Women living in yellow or red areas on the HOLC's redlining maps experienced poorer health outcomes than those living in green or blue areas.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

12.08.2022 Reyma McCoy Hyten

Reyma McCoy Hyten

Reyma McCoy Hyten has a two-decade career in the service and support of people with disabilities. She became the first Black woman to serve as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner for the Administration on Disabilities. Currently, she works privately, devoting her full attention and time to identifying and confronting the root causes of oppression, and how systems create marginalization.

Fellow Connor McCombs

12.01.2022 Hands holding red ribbon

Know Your Status

Focus group participants reported stigmatizing behavior about being tested for HIV, and among health care providers when seeking HIV testing.

Fellow Connor McCombs

10.04.2022 rainbow profiles

The Cost of Conversion Therapy

Adverse outcomes of conversion therapy extend beyond psychological, physical and social; it's also costly financially.

Fellow Connor McCombs

09.27.2022 a group of graphs showing different health outcomes

Consequences of Ageism

Adults ages 50 to 80 experienced ageism which affected their health, researchers found in a recent survey.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

09.07.2022 brain

Health Equity

Desegregation and Cognition

Researchers found that attending segregated schools could be associated with late-life cognitive decline for Black students.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

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