During the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Heart Association created a new 2024 Impact
Goal with health equity at its core, in recognition of the increasing health disparities in our …

Structural racism has been and remains a fundamental cause of persistent health disparities
in the United States. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the police …

The current national COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is 2.1 times higher than
that of Whites. In this commentary, we provide historical context on how structural racism …

Research on racial and ethnic disparities is a common and critical area of investigation in
the health sciences. To best understand such disparities, scientific investigation and …

Racism and racial bias influence the lives and cardiovascular health of minority individuals.
The fact that minority groups tend to have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease risk …

Amid the historic convergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and
antiracist activism in the US, JAMA spoke with Chicago public health legend Linda Rae …

Reports of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care are pervasive and can be
striking, but they rarely come as news to anyone because of their ubiquity. From the …

Unequivocally, the health of our nation has been profoundly impacted by interpersonal,
institutional, cultural, systemic, and structural racism. With the disproportionate harms of …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a declaration reflecting
what many already realized: racism is a threat to public health and a fundamental cause of …

Health, as defined by the World Health Organization,“is a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” 1 It is a simple …