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PubMed Feed- Adverse childhood experiences among black sexually minoritized men and Black transgender women in Chicago
- Disadvantaged groups have greater spatial access to pharmacies in New York state
- Direct potable reuse and birth defects prevalence in Texas: An augmented synthetic control method analysis of data from a population-based birth defects registry
- Police Harassment and Psychiatric, Sexual, and Substance Use Risk Among Black Sexual Minority Men and Black Transgender Women in the HIV Prevention Trials 061 Cohort
- Neighborhood violent crime exposure is associated with PrEP non-use among black sexually minoritized men and transgender women: A GPS Study
- Screening mammography frequency following dense breast notification among a predominantly Hispanic/Latina screening cohort
- Interstate Highway Connections and Traced Gun Transfers Between the 48 Contiguous United States
- Population Neuroscience: Understanding Concepts of Generalizability and Transportability and Their Application to Improving the Public's Health
- Practical causal mediation analysis: extending nonparametric estimators to accommodate multiple mediators and multiple intermediate confounders
- Inequality on the frontline: A multi-country study on gender differences in mental health among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Category Archives: Ethnicity
In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
In the past month, New York City has rolled back most of the public health mandates first put in place to control the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, such as social distancing and mask wearing mandates. Now, new research … Continue reading
“I’m Not a Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up as British-Bangladeshi Girls
Most people wish to banish the awkwardness and confusion of puberty from their memories, but for Lauren Houghton, puberty has been the focus of her research for more than a decade. Fascinated by the opportunity it presented for biosocial inquiry, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity, Gender, Immigration, Mixed Methods, Social Environments
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“Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act”1: Racial sexual exclusivity as both an effect and a protection against discrimination for Black sexual minority men
Often in public health, sexual relationships between Black gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM) are framed as sources of risk and disease, especially in terms of HIV transmission. However, Black queer activists have long known that cultivating loving … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Ethnicity, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Race, Racism, Social Networks
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COVID-19 Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children.
Andrew Rundle and colleagues wrote a Perspective article for The Obesity Society’s journal Obesity, to call attention to the COVID-19 pandemic’s likely longer-term effect on children’s health. In many areas of the U.S., the COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools and … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity, Health Disparities, Obesity, Physical Activity, Race
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Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course
Getting the band back together, Cluster faculty past and present and a Doc student (Link, Susser, March, Kezios, Lovasi, Rundle, and Suglia) just published new work in Social Science and Medicine. This is the first paper from the Child Health … Continue reading
Demand-Side Efficiency in Global Health
In a recent paper published in Health Policy and Planning, cluster faculty member Elizabeth Radin and her colleagues develop the concept of demand-side efficiency–or the efficiency with which health system users convert public health resources into health outcomes. They also propose methods … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity, Gender, Global Health, Health Disparities
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A New Project to Study Childhood Adversity and Cardiovascular Health in Puerto Rican Young Adults
Cluster faculty member Shakira Suglia was recently awarded an NIH grant to study the effects of childhood adversity on health outcomes among young Puerto Rican adults from the South Bronx and from San Juan, Puerto Rico. While these two groups of … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Adversity, Ethnicity
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