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We go On the Record with Dr. Lisa Cooper of Johns Hopkins to reply to the title of her book, "Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?" After decades researching racial inequities, Cooper now takes her ideas to a key White House panel.
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Head of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Dr. Lisa Cooper has tried to understand and explain the ways race and the stress of discrimination shape health care and health outcomes. She’s distilled her work and ideas into a book "Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?"
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We’ll go On the Record with a family-medicine doctor and a crusader against infant mortality to discuss how racist structures and routines put Black women at risk during pregnancy, childbirth and for months after, and where they see reason for hope.
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The director of Hopkins' Center for Health Equity discusses the costs of racial inequities in health care.
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A new report by the United Health Foundation sheds light on how health disparities have evolved in Maryland and across the country.
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Black women’s risk of dying from infections, high blood pressure, blood clots and other treatable conditions during and after pregnancy is more than twice the risk of white women. Dr. Latey Bradford of the University of Maryland’s Family Medicine Clinic says pregnant Black women also confront more health dangers that don’t kill them, but can leave lasting damage. Education and a good income are no protection.Bradford and Stacey Stephens of B’More for Healthy Babies name racism as the cause, and tell us why.
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The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) announced Wednesday that it has recruited its first Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer.
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The science journal Neuron published a paper in July on the underrepresentation of African Americans in brain research, specifically in genomic studies…
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Overcrowding in Baltimore County schools, a peek at Governor Hogan’s memoir, and a conversation about COVID-19 and Black Americans’ historical distrust of…
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Joe Kane grew up in East Baltimore with his cousins, aunts and uncles close by. It was the way his grandmother, Phyllis Waters, wanted it.He says she…