Disparities between Black and White Americans in health care coverage and health outcomes are pervasive in the United States. In this paper, we describe the evolution of the…
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role that police and policing play in the…
Background: The 2014 adoption of the Milestone ratings system may have affected evaluation bias against minoritized groups.
Objective: To assess bias in internal medicine (IM)…
In this article, we examine evaluation bias against Black, Latino, and Asian residents before and after a major change in the way internal medicine (IM) residents were evaluated…
Marginalized racial and ethnic groups, women, and other historically disenfranchised populations are substantially underrepresented in clinical trials, despite increasing concern…
Systemic racism is deeply embedded in U.S. healthcare and economic systems and remains pervasive in social policies and organizational practices that perpetuate oppression of…
Many older Americans do not receive needed care for mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUD), and there are substantial racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of this…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting? Using a pre-registered vignette experiment…
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts…
Against the backdrop of dramatic changes in work and family life, this article draws on survey data from 2,971 mothers working in the service sector to examine how unpredictable…
