Health consequences of discriminatory housing policy
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professors Mary Bassett and Nancy Krieger discussed the harmful health consequences of redlining—a historic government policy that institutionalized housing discrimination against people of color across America.
Harvard Chan School joins effort to close racial wealth gap
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is partnering with leading organizations from across the business, nonprofit, philanthropy, and academic sectors on a new initiative aimed at combatting the 90% racial wealth gap between Black and white Americans.…
Sex disparities in COVID-19 deaths hide high toll on Black women
Black women have died from COVID-19 at more than three times the rates of white men and Asian men. The only other group more likely to die from the disease was Black men.
A call for scientists to fight health inequity
A panel discussion focused on health disparities and the work of the Poor People’s Campaign, a nonpartisan social justice movement that mobilizes low-income people to be agents of social change.
Racism can erode physical well-being
The chronic stress of experiencing discrimination can gradually erode people’s physical well-being over time, according to Mary Bassett, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Bassett was one of several experts…
Turning the words ‘racism is a public health crisis’ into action
Mary Bassett, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, discusses Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s declaration that racism is a public health crisis in Boston—and what steps should come next.
Experts: Health care system’s racial bias contributes to COVID-19 disparities
Discrimination in the health care system is contributing to stark disparities in how COVID-19 is sickening and killing people of color, according to health care experts. In a June 15, 2020 article in USA Today, experts talked about…
Dean Michelle Williams talks COVID-19 and public health with NBA star Carmelo Anthony
Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle Williams spoke with NBA star Carmelo Anthony of the Portland Trail Blazers in a video posted May 26, 2020 on his YouTube channel.
Op-ed: Discrimination contributes to poor health
Evidence suggests that discrimination harms health through multiple pathways.
Healing the hurt
Physician John A. Rich, MPH ’90, reflects on what has he learned in the decade since publishing a pathbreaking book on trauma in the lives of young black men.
