California Black Health Network Executive Director Rhonda Smith transforms personal encounters with life-threatening emergency room bias into systemic advocacy.
Health Equity & Social Justice
Facing massive federal funding cuts and chronic ER overcrowding, NorCal health leaders & community organizations launch innovative alternative care models.
TV medical dramas have long provided a powerful lens for examining real-world emergency care, highlighting iconic Black actors and critical health care realities.
Communities of color and low-income communities have long faced disproportionate exposure to highways, power plants and other sources of industrial pollution.
UC Davis ER physician Kara Toles discusses confronting bias in care while advocating for health equity and training colleagues to recognize prejudice.
Wisconsin lawmakers have put forward bills to reduce the state's high Black infant death rate, but the Legislature hasn't taken them up.
J Vasquez spent 25 years incarcerated for gang violence rooted in childhood trauma. Now 49, he's healed, works as CURYJ's Policy Director, and helps writes laws to help others come home.
A Watts family endures 6 months of separation after ICE detains devoted father of four, José Padilla, straining finances, mental health, and the children's wellbeing.
Researchers and health experts point to the cumulative effects of systemic racism, chronic stress and generational trauma that shape maternal health long before pregnancy begins.