A student in the Summer Research Program – Public & Global Health Track reflects on what she’s learned about racial and health disparities in STL.
Metropolitan medicine: Reflections on health disparities in St. Louis
Tag: Racial Equity
An international partnership: Improved cancer care of underserved patients in Guatemala
This blog post by Summer Research Program student Mahija Ginjupalli outlines the Global Health Center’s Guatemala project benefitting cancer patients.
Trust: A rising public health concern?
Written by Farhana Nabi, MD candidate at the University College Dublin; University College Dublin Scholar in the 2020 Institute for Public Health Summer Research Program – Public and Global Health Abbreviated Track Trust. It is the essence of formative relationships between people, institutions and societies. In a conversation with Kurt Dirks, PhD, vice chancellor for […]
COVID-19’s amplification of racial health inequities: A reflection about losing my people
Written by Kamaria Lee, MD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis; collaborator with the Global Health Center on the USAID-ASHA project to Improve Cancer Care in Guatemala Recently, Americans have faced the reality that COVID-19 is not immune to the power of racial inequity. In honest efforts to promote a “we are all in […]