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- Autism research has a race problem. Despite improvements in screening and diagnosis, autism continues to be underdiagnosed in Black and Hispanic children, and those who obtain a diagnosis often have limited access to support services. Racial disparities persist during the transition to adulthood, with autistic adults from racial and ethnic minority groups experiencing a number of challenges,…December 2020Mental/Behavioral Health
- "We know what works. We know what will center the humanity and dignity and ensure that Black folks are not just surviving but thriving . . . But we don’t fund it.” - US Rep. Ayanna Pressley, MA-07In this powerful quote, Rep. Ayanna Pressley is highlighting two important ways philanthropy and other sectors can drive meaningful change by:1) Focusing on strategies that center humanity and explicitly…November 2020Services & Programs
- A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published in September found that pregnant women, especially Black and Latinx, are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 compared to non-pregnant individuals. They are more likely to be admitted to intensive care units (ICU), receive invasive ventilation, and are at increased risk of death.In response to COVID-19, several states…November 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- Ros Beadle is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University (in Alice Springs). Despite extensive previous experience working in community development, Ros Beadle found herself out of her comfort zone when she first started to work as a community support worker in a very remote Australian Aboriginal community in 2009. As she indicates in this conversation with Ernie…October 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The inequities laid bare by COVID-19 underscore the importance of states’ efforts to develop policies and interventions to address all health disparities. Systemic racism, a driver of these inequities, also fuels disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality – Black women are four-times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women. States are on the frontlines, working to…October 2020Adverse Birth Outcomes, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- In June 2020, The California Endowment (TCE) issued a Statement on Race and Racism and identified key action steps to advance racial justice in our role as an active partner and investor in Black communities and communities of color. This brief reports on our specific commitment to improved tracking, reporting, and transparency of TCE funding to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)-led…October 2020Physical Environment, Social Environment
- As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face longstanding and persistent challenges in collecting complete, accurate, and consistent race, ethnicity and language (REL) data. This expert perspective provides an overview of current REL data collection standards; ideas for increasing completeness in data by engaging the enrollee and enrollment…October 2020Medicaid
- Antonio Boyd is the Chief Operating Officer at Future of School, the leading non-partisan charity focused on access to quality education, and a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education at Northeastern University. In this video, Antonio discusses his action research dissertation with his chair, Dr. Cherese Childers-McKee. Antonio used participatory action research to explore…October 2020High School Graduation
- Darryl Kickett is a Noongah Aboriginal man with whom I worked for many years at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University in Western Australia. At a time when very few Aboriginal people entered university studies, we were able to work with a team at that Centre to develop culturally appropriate courses that not only saw hundreds of Aboriginal graduate, but also demonstrated the…October 2020Postsecondary Education
- Recent events in American history are motivating people and institutions to reckon with the effects of persistent racism in American society. As recent posts on the IAPHS blog have highlighted, racism still exists in the U.S., and this has been made even clearer by the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been much discussion, particularly on academic Twitter, about how researchers can better use and…October 2020Services & Programs
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