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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes. Another crucial factor in maternal and infant health: the mental wellbeing of women and birthing people, especially as it intersects with race.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. The atrocities may seem remote to some, but not to the survivors—people in our community, many of whom were children at the time and are now in their late forties or early fifties.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

Precision medicine’s contributions to modern medical practice are undeniable. The HGP has undoubtedly contributed to scientific knowledge and medical breakthroughs by laying the foundation for understanding the genomic components of disease; however, the HGP repositories consist almost exclusively of European/White genomic data.

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Management Challenges: Early Lessons in Advancing Pay Equity and Wellness Globally

NonProfit Quarterly

We have also been stirred by the long-overdue reckoning over race in the United States and sought in response to address racial equity more squarely in our work. We offered a COVID cash supplement that could be used to buy medical supplies, get groceries delivered, or even donate to local organizations that needed support.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. Meanwhile, in the West Elmwood HEZ, improving educational outcomes for parents and young children has been a prime goal.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

A sustained peace of mind comes from the stability of a good job, knowing that your children are safe, knowing that you are not going to lose your home. Rest and race are intertwined, and it all boils down to who has the right to rest and under what conditions rest and leisure should be granted. Rest Is An Act of Core Health.

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Interview: Dismantling Structural Racism in Health Around the World

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They are creating anti-racist strategies to respond because today too many people are limited by racism and discrimination based on ethnicity, caste, tribe, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and religion. I knew that I had to pass medical school, I had to nod and say yes and do what I needed to do.

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