Thirty-seven years ago, the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health called
attention to a “national paradox” of persistent Black-White health disparities despite overall …

The knowledge base regarding the impact of racism and discrimination on African American
health and well-being has grown significantly since the first models of racism and health, but …

Racism is a fundamental cause of racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.
Researchers have a critical role to play in confronting racism by understanding it and …

For the countless number of public health scientists and professionals who have dedicated
their careers to the investigation and elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health, this …

Differences in health outcomes across racial groups are among the most commonly reported
findings in health disparities research. Often, these studies do not explicitly connect …

Research related to racism and health has evolved in recent decades, with a growing
appreciation of the centrality of the social determinants of health, life-course approaches and …

Ignoring structural racism as a core determinant of social inequities, political inequities, and
economic inequities ignores its roles as a fundamental driver of the ongoing and stark health …

Racial and ethnic minority populations experience unequal results across a broad range of
societal indicators. Health status is one such area of persistent and pervasive racial …

Blacks have worse overall health than whites in both the United States and the United
Kingdom. However, the relative difference in health between the two groups within each …

Fullilove is right to urge public health researchers to study how racism affects health.'It is
long past time to abandon the false view that" race" is a valid biological category and the …