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January 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In March 1966, only two years before he would be assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. uttered what I consider one of his most profound statements. “Of all the forms of inequality,” he said, “injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane ...
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center and a multicultural research network managed by the University of California, Los Angeles, studied disparities in health and access to care in Latino and other minority populations.
December 8, 2011 | Story
A profile of Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN, Nurse Faculty Scholar.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines national working-age mortality rates and working-age mortality rates in high-poverty rural and urban regions. This study provides insight into how mortality rates in poor regions have changed since 1980.
March 24, 2011 | Commentary
RWJF President and CEO addresses the only conference of its kind focusing exclusively on health disparities in communities of color.
November 1, 2011 | Story
RWJF Scholars find that socioeconomic status contributes to racial differences in adult lung function.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study investigated whether feeling more masculine and mistrusting health care institutions caused African-American men to delay using preventive health services. The authors recruited participants from community barbershops and academic institutions.
August 24, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
“Two generations ago Dr. King issued a stinging indictment of the inequalities of the health of Americans,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., said yesterday at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Hea ...
August 19, 2011 | Program Result
The Summer Medical and Dental Education Program helps undergraduates from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds compete for medical and dental school admission. This is a look at the program and its results as it passes the 20-year mark.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement is a survey of sociological literature examining health and race. The authors revisit a century of contributions from W.E.B. Dubois to Robert Bullard's study of environmental racism.