Harvard Bell Fellow Brittney Butler, PhD, has co-authored a review in the journal Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports that examines the literature from the last five years focused on “the built and social environment factors and maternal pregnancy complications among racially marginalized women.” Their findings point to a scant number of existing studies—after excluding the ones that focused on environmental toxins—and they make the case for why an environmental justice framework is…
A historical approach to validating racism as a key determinant of health
The February 2022 issue of the journal Health Affairs takes a deeper look at racism and health. Harvard Pop Center faculty affiliate David Williams, along with co-author Ruth Enid Zambrana, contribute to this piece on how the past four decades of scholarship, along with some more recent insights, have helped to highlight why racism needs to be part of the “national discourse on racial inequities in health.”
Op-ed: How the “darker, unsettling narrative” of extreme racist hatred can shed light on what is “average”
This op-ed in the Toronto Star penned by former Harvard Bell Fellow Fahad Razak, MD, and contributor Lisa Berkman, PhD, explores the concept that what is viewed as extreme within a population may shed light on the average. Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
Krieger et. al. call for medical journals to publish more empirical studies on racism and health
In this analysis published in Health Affairs, Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, and her colleagues take a look back at how many times the word “racism” appears in a search of scientific literature published over the last three decades by four of the world’s leading medical journals. The authors have also authored this piece published in Time Magazine that introduces the findings of their study to a wide and…
Nancy Krieger takes on the Harvard Chan School’s Big 3 in response to killing of George Floyd and national protests
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is featured in The Big 3, a Q & A format that explores topical issues in public health. Social Epidemiologist and Professor Nancy Krieger discusses the recent police violence and national protests in the context of a longstanding history of structural racism in the United States.