Al Castro, of Milwaukee's United Community Center, discusses how the Center is collaborating with local organizations to address the shifting healthcare needs of Milwaukee's Latino community during the #COVID19 pandemic....
Lucretia Sullivan-Wade, a community outreach specialist for UW-Madison's participation in the national All of Us Research Program, discusses the racial disparities that exist in health research and how the All of Us program is reaching out to communities of color in Madison and elsewhere to help ensure they have more of a voice in the future of healthcare....
This podcast explores how racial disparities in the death rate contradict the claim that the novel coronavirus is "the great equalizer"....
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, African Americans make up 6.7% of Wisconsin’s populations, but they account for 29% of the people who have died in the state from COVID-19, higher than the national number of 21.9%. Blacks make up 21% of the COVID-19 cases statewide....
As of Monday, there have been 4,051 cases of COVID-19 in Milwaukee County and 221 deaths. African Americans represent about a quarter of the county’s population but account for almost half of the deaths....
A history of unfulfilled promises between the Navajo Nation and the U.S. government has helped fuel one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in the country among Navajo People. The Navajo Nation imposed extensive lockdown orders, but inadequate infrastructure and lack of access to basic needs like running water is intensifying the crisis....
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Director Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Stable discuss health disparities amid the COVID-19 pandemic....
People of color have not only been hit harder by the deadly coronavirus than have Americans overall, but they’re also bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s financial impact....
Joshua Wright is the community project coordinator for the Cancer Health Disparities Initiative at the UW Carbone Cancer Center. He's been at the forefront of helping Madison black men, in particular, learn about their health and identify risk factors and healthy habits. ...
Sandra Crouse Quinn spoke to Science Magazine about how studies of past epidemics like that of the H1N1 flu reveal risk factors to communities of color—and suggest solutions to be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic....