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Racist Events Can Have Spillover Effects, Triggering Mental, Physical Health Responses Beyond Immediate Victim

by Kevin Dedner, MPH, Founder & CEO, Hurdle Health 06/01/2022 Leave a Comment

Racist Events Can Have Spillover Effects, Triggering Mental, Physical Health Responses Beyond Immediate Victim

This article is excerpted from the Hurdle Health Research Report “Voices of a Collective Experience: Vicarious Racism and its Effects on Black Mental Health.” In the Brooklyn mural, an American flag undulates behind him. The one in Gaza City, Palestine crowns him with two hands—one Black, one White—making the shape of  a heart. In Naples, Italy, he weeps blood, reminiscent of religious artwork of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Another, in Los Angeles, drapes red tape with the words “I
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Report: State of Black Mental Health Before and After George Floyd’s Death

by Fred Pennic 05/27/2021 Leave a Comment

State of Black Mental Health Before and After George Floyd's Death

What You Should Know: - Hurdle, a Washington D.C.-based digital mental health company, announced the publication of a white paper on Black mental health before and after George Floyd's death. - Co-authored by leading mental health researchers Dr. Harold "Woody" Neighbors, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Dr. Norma L. Day-Vines, Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins
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Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality

by Warren A Whyte, Ph.D., VP Scientific Partnerships at ConcertAI 02/09/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality by Warren A Whyte, Ph.D.,

According to a 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one in 1,000 Black males can expect to die at the hands of the police. Black males were also 2.5 times more likely to die during an encounter with police than white males. For some, those figures are staggering. For many others, they are reminders of the racial disparities that have existed for far too long in this country. So, in 2020, when recent events have brought racial injustice back into the national
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COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…

by Michael A Greeley, Co-Founder & General Partner at Flare Capital Partners 10/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism… Healthcare Technology Digital Health

This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education accounted for the balance. The report estimates that if these gaps were to be
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HHS Awards Morehouse $40M to Combat COVID-19, Advance Health Equity in Minority Communities

by Fred Pennic 06/24/2020 Leave a Comment

HHS Awards Morehouse $40M to Combat COVID-19, Advance Health Equity in Minority Communities

What You Should Know: - Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) partners with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a three-year project to combat COVID-19 and advance health equity in minority communities. - The initiative – the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities – is a three-year project designed to work with community-based organizations across the nation to deliver education and information on resources
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 06/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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