Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Ph.D. More than 2 million people in the United States live without indoor plumbing or usable drinking water. Although having to worry about the origin, purity, and safety of water is often considered a premodern problem…
Rupa Sheth Valdez, Ph.D., and Bonnielin K. Swenor, Ph.D., M.P.H. A recent report from a working group of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee on Diversity (which one of us, B.K.S., co-chaired) highlights the need for more research…
Kevin P. Josey, Ph.D., Scott W. Delaney, Sc.D., J.D., Xiao Wu, Ph.D., Rachel C. Nethery, Ph.D., Priyanka DeSouza, Ph.D., Danielle Braun, Ph.D., and Francesca Dominici, Ph.D. Abstract BACKGROUND Black Americans are exposed to higher annual levels of air pollution containing…
Eugenia South, M.D., Atheendar Venkataramani, M.D., Ph.D., and George Dalembert, M.D. In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s “Black Wall Street,” a financially independent and vibrant community that had been built and sustained by Black Americans, became the site of one of the…
Suhas Gondi, M.D., M.B.A., Karen Joynt Maddox, M.D., M.P.H., and Rishi K. Wadhera, M.D., M.P.P. The movement toward value-based payment has been a defining feature of U.S. health care reform during the past decade. Despite substantial enthusiasm and investment, however,…
