As the racial composition of the opioid epidemic changes again, history suggests our response may be at risk of changing, too.
When policy concessions continually come at the expense of the same group of people, it’s not reasonable to conclude it’s a coincidence.
White Americans have higher rates than most other racial and ethnic groups.
Paul Shafer is an assistant professor of health law, policy, and management at the Boston University School of Public Health, follow him on Twitter @shaferpr.
There is an unsatisfactory complacency that emerges from believing not being racist is adequate. It’s not adequate. In truth, it’s a passivity that tacitly supports structural racism everywhere, including in HSR. That I was not racist was merely a story I told myself. It didn’t have any impact on my community or the institutions where I work.
Cecille Joan Avila is a Policy Analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets at @cecilleavila. “Vulnerable” is often used to avoid the
This is a letter to white people, as well as a letter to myself. Like you, I am white. You and I don’t have the
Carmen Mitchell is currently a fourth-year health policy doctoral student in the Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences at the University of Louisville School
My mom sent me her brief summary of White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo. In countless ways, white people in American society are the standard and
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2020, The New York Times Company). It also appeared on page B5 of the print edition on
This post includes my third thought about selected passages of “So you want to talk about race,” by Ijeoma Oluo. All posts in this series
This post includes my second thought about selected passages of “So you want to talk about race,” by Ijeoma Oluo. All posts in this series
