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A recent study both validated time to surgery as a standardized metric for breast cancer care and identified a worrying difference in time to surgery between Black and white patients.

Children in immigrant families often face mental health challenges that are exacerbated by social determinants of health.

In this Q&A, we talk to Dr. Turner about his recent study on Race and Ethnicity Reporting and Representation in Pediatric Clinical Trials.

A new team research effort seeks to shed light on how mothers pass immunity to their babies during pregnancy and lactation.

Despite being a treatable disease, osteoporosis remains underdiagnosed and undertreated, with Black women experiencing the most disparities.

There are two key pieces of our data infrastructure to reexamine if we want to make our public health systems be more equitable, says Margarita Alegría, PhD, chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

While they drive our economy and society forward, people who immigrate to the United States also have to navigate new systems, cultural norms, and sometimes a new language.

While they drive our economy and society forward, people who immigrate to the United States also have to navigate new systems, cultural norms, and sometimes a new language.

Dr. Atkinson and her team are working to make genetic research more inclusive with a new statistical framework and software package designed to include individuals of mixed ancestry.

I call this newsletter a conversation because I believe that dialogues, even when they’re hard to have, are important.