Upcoming and recorded events, blogs, and more regarding health inequities, research and education, and other resources.
Upcoming Events
- Pitch Partners: Centering Racial Equity | Center for Community Health Partnership and Research at the Institute for Public Health and CRE2 | Oct 11, 5p
- “Vascular Contributions to Depression: Implications for Health Disparities and Lifestyle Interventions” | Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences | Nov 6, 4p
- Journal Club on Race in Science | Brown School Race & Opportunity Lab | Mondays 12p CT
Recorded events/shared slides/workshop summaries
- A conversation about “Critical Race Theory” with Kevin Brown | Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Feb 2023)
- 2023 MLK Week | WashU (Jan 2023)
- “Race and the Future of Genomics: More Equity, or Less?” | Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) (4/8/2022)
- “Gatekeeping & the Publishing Landscape for Scholarship on Race, Medicine & Science” | Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2), Northwestern University’s Program in Science in Human Culture (SHC) (11/5/2021)
- “Organizational Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Driving Forces and Stumbling Blocks” | Knight ADRC Seay Lecture (10/19/2021)
- Vanita Gupta | ANA-JHU Social Justice Summer Series | recorded (08/13/2021)
- “We’re Not Broken: Why Equity in Maternal Mental Health Matters” | WashU Brown School | recorded (5/6/2021)
- LGBTQ Health Month 2021: various events | Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | recorded (April 2021)
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Neuroscience Training: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief | NASEM 2021
- March’s Centennial Conversation Conquering COVID-19: “Advancing Equity One Year Later “ | HELA100 | recorded
- Conversations on Covid-19: Impacts on Communities of Color | National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine | recorded
- Virtual Workshop: Neuroscience Training in Challenging Times | NASEM | recorded (01/19/2021)
- WashU MLK Week Keynote Address: “Dr. King’s Message on Race, Science and Justice” | recorded (01/18/2021)
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Week 2021: January 18-22 | WashU School of Medicine | recorded
- “Racial Inequities in Federal Funding for Biomedical Research” | WashU Anesthesiology | recorded (12/15/2020)
- Wednesdays with WashU: “How does who I am and where I live affect my health?” | recorded (12/09/2020)
- Community Panel: “Who Decides Who you Are?” | recorded (11/20/2020)
- “Truth and Reconciliation in Healthcare: Healing St. Louis in Crisis” | BJC Healthcare Diversity Week | recorded (11/18/2020)
- “Henrietta Lacks: Centennial CELLebration: Honoring Her Life and Legacy” | recorded (11/17/2020)
- Race, Equity and Social Justice Journal Club | “Science Advocacy for Neuroscientists: Communicating Your Science to Policymakers” | slides | (11/13/2020)
- The Neurological Impact of COVID-19 | WashU Neurology Grand Rounds | recorded (11/04/2020)
- Social Media Summit: “Intersection of Social Media, Diversity, Inclusion and Medical Education” | Academy of Educators at WashU School of Medicine | recorded (10/19/2020)
- Racial Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Neuroscience Training Virtual Workshop | NASEM | recorded (08/20/2020)
- Christopher Bedford & Erricka Bridgeford | ANA-JHU Social Justice Summer Series | recorded (08/20/2020)
- “Reimagining Place: Identity, Healing and Justice” | ANA-JHU Social Justice Summer Series | recorded (08/06/2020)
- COVID-19 and Race: Education | Clark-Fox Policy Institute | recorded (08/13/2020)
- Systemic Racism and Mental Health | Co-sponsored by the Brown School | recorded (08/06/2020)
- High price of Economic Injustice | Clark-Fox Policy Institute | recorded (08/04/2020)
- SfN Black Lives Matter and Neuroscience | recorded (07/02/2020)
- Open Classroom: COVID-19 and Race: Devastating Loss and Emotional and Mental Health | Brown School | recorded (05/28/2020)
News
- NEW! Race-based variations in gut bacteria emerge by 3 months of age (8/18/2023)
- Study defines disparities in memory care (8/2/2023)
- More Work Needed to Improve Equity Focus in Public Health Departments (8/1/2023)
- Achieving gender equity in medicine (7/26/2023)
- Achieving sustainable diets with nutrition equity (7/21/2023)
- Brown School Summer Partnership Builds Black Girls’ STEM Skills, Confidence (7/17/2023)
- Bias from pulse oximeters remains even if corrected by race, study finds (6/23/2023)
- Hudson named director of Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (5/25/2023)
- Siteman Cancer Center launches cancer screening initiative to address racial disparities (5/22/2023)
- Biology Students win Annual Awards (5/15/2023)
- Detailed human pangenome reference captures human diversity (5/11/2023)
- ‘The battle for memory’: Mustakeem on the intertwining histories of race and medicine (4/25/2023)
- Equity for African Americans in Alzheimer’s disease | WashU Outlook Magazine (2/22/2023)
- Commonly used police diversity training unlikely to change officers’ behavior, study finds | WashU The Source (2/3/2023)
- New Book by Leopoldo J. Cabassa Examines Health Inequities, Mental Illness | WashU Brown School of Social Work (1/31/2023)
- Depression in college-educated Black Americans linked to discrimination | WashU The Source (1/31/2023)
- Research reveals how redlining grades influenced later life expectancy | WashU The Source (1/26/2023)
- COVID-19 widened health disparities in employment, food | WUSM News (11/10/2022)
- Interdisciplinary ‘Politics of Reproduction’ course to explore history, implications post-Roe v. Wade | WashU The Source (8/5/2022)
- Young people at risk: The Washington Early Recognition Center specializes in youth psychosis | WashU School of Medicine Outlook Magazine (Summer 2022)
- Goldbach wins $3M NI H grant to study violence in LGBTQ adolescents | WashU The Source (7/20/2022)
- Early to serve as interim CRE2 director | WashU The Source (6/21/2022)
- Alzheimer’s blood tests more likely to misdiagnose Black patients, study finds | STL Public Radio (5/10/2022)
- Race of people given Alzheimer’s blood tests may affect interpretation of results | WashU School of Medicine News (4/21/2022)
- Investigating Racial Health Disparities to Eradicate Them | WashU Brown School News (4/15/2022)
- Racial equity in Alzheimer’s research focus of $7 million in grants | WashU The Source (12/14/2021)
- Cancer moonshot grant funds research into reducing health disparities | WashU School of Medicine News (11/5/2021)
- Environmental injustice and the spread of COVID-19 | WashU The Source October 2021
- CRE² launches podcast | WashU The Source, October 2021
- How racial violence affects Black Americans’ mental health | WashU The Record (04/21/2021)
- Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity | WashU The Source (4/6/2021)
- African American children with autism experience long delays in diagnosis | WashU School of Medicine News (08/23/2020)
- ‘We do belong here’: The scientist behind #BlackInNeuro hopes to transform a Twitter movement into a lasting community | STAT News, August 2020
Relevant Publications
- NEW! Elucidating individual differences in chronic pain and whole person health with allostatic load biomarkers | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity – Health, 2023
- Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age | PLoS Biology, 2023
- Racial disparities in access to DBS: results of a real-world U.S. claims data analysis | Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
- Age-Specific Barriers and Facilitators to Research Participation Amongst African Americans in Observational Studies of Memory and Aging | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2023
- Adversity type and timing predict temporal summation of pain in African-American adults | Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2023
- Epigenetic age acceleration mediates the relationship between neighborhood deprivation and pain severity in adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis pain | Social Science and Medicine, 2023
- Demographics and baseline disease characteristics of Black and Hispanic patients with multiple sclerosis in the open-label, single-arm, multicenter, phase IV CHIMES trial | Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2023
- Examining Increasing Racial Inequities in Opioid Overdose Deaths: a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Black and White Decedents in St. Louis, Missouri, 2011–2021 | Journal of Urban Health, 2023
- A practitioner’s guide to geospatial analysis in a neuroimaging context | Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 2023
- Using Parametric g-Computation to Estimate the Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality Risk and Simulate the Benefits of Hypothetical Policies: The Canadian Community Health Survey Cohort (2005 to 2015) | Environmental Health Perspectives, 2023
- Effects of clinical, comorbid, and social determinants of health on brain ageing in people with and without HIV: a retrospective case-control study | The Lancet HIV, 2023
- Attitudes and beliefs regarding race-targeted genetic testing of Black people: A systematic review | Journal of Genetic Counseling, 2023
- Association Between Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Lumbar Spine Surgery | Neurosurgery, 2023
- Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use | Nature, 2022
- Preliminary Evidence for the Sequentially Mediated Effect of Racism-Related Stress on Pain Sensitivity Through Sleep Disturbance and Corticolimbic Opioid Receptor Function | Journal of Pain, 2022
- Associations Among Loneliness, Purpose in Life and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Ethnoracially Diverse Older Adults Living in the United States | Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2022
- The use of virtual tools in narrowing the impact of health disparities in neurology | Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
- Increasing participant diversity in AD research: Plans for digital screening, blood testing, and a community-engaged approach in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 4 | Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 2022
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Amyloid PET Positivity in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Secondary Analysis of the Imaging Dementia-Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Cohort Study | JAMA Neurology, 2022
- The intersectionality of life course socioeconomic status, race, and cognitive decline: An 18-year follow-up | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2022
- Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging | Social Science & Medicine, 2022
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders among Older Adults with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury | Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, 2022
- Association of State Medicaid Expansion Status with Rates of Suicide among US Adults | JAMA Network Open, 2022
- Access to health services among sexual minority people in the United States | Health and Social Care in the Community, 2022
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychosocial Health of Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: Investigation of Experiences and Needed Resources | Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, Spring 2022
- Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Longitudinal Neurocognitive Decline in People With HIV | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999), May 2022
- Association of Multidimensional Poverty With Dementia in Adults Aged 50 Years or Older in South Africa | JAMA Network Open, March 2022
- Transportation and other social needs as markers of mental health conditions | Journal of Transport and Health, June 2022
- Low housing quality, unmet social needs, stress and depression among low-income smokers | Preventive Medicine Reports, March 2022
- The Influence of Race, Sex, and Social Disadvantage on Self-reported Health in Patients Presenting With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain | American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, March 2022
- Racial and demographic disparities in emergency department utilization for mental health concerns before and during the COVID-19 pandemic | Psychiatry Research, February 2022
- The complex relationship between depression and progression to incident cognitive impairment across race and ethnicity | Alzheimer’s and Dementia, February 2022
- Association of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act with access to elective spine surgical care | Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, September 2021
- Racial differences in longitudinal Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers among cognitively normal adults | Alzheimer’s and Dementia, February 2022
- The complex relationship between depression and progression to incident cognitive impairment across race and ethnicity | Alzheimer’s and Dementia, February 2022
- The Influence of Race, Sex, and Social Disadvantage on Self-reported Health in Patients Presenting With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain | American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, March 2022
- Assessing infant cognition in field settings using eye-tracking: a pilot cohort trial in Sierra Leone | BMJ Open, February 2022
- Estimated Population Access to Acute Stroke and Telestroke Centers in the US, 2019 | Jama Network Open, February 2022
- Prior differences in previous trauma exposure primarily drive the observed racial/ethnic differences in posttrauma depression and anxiety following a recent trauma | Psychological Medicine, January 2022
- Revisiting the relationship between implicit racial bias and audiovisual benefit for nonnative-accented speech | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, January 2022
- Smaller Hippocampal Volume Among Black and Latinx Youth Living in High-Stigma Contexts |Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, September 2021
- Association of Disease Severity and Socioeconomic Status in Black and White Americans With Multiple Sclerosis | Neurology, August 2021
- Gene-Targeted Therapies in Pediatric Neurology: Challenges and Opportunities in Diagnosis and Delivery | Pediatric Neurology, September 2021
- Insights on Neural Response to Racist Threats | JAMA Psychiatry, July 2021
- Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals | JAMA, August 2021
- Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors | Psychoneuroendocrinology, September 2021
- Neighborhood active aging infrastructure and cognitive function: A mixed-methods study of older Americans | Preventive Medicine, September 2021
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart and Cerebrovascular Disease Deaths during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States | Circulation, May 2021
- Structural Racism and Discrimination: Impact on Minority Health and Health Disparities | Ethnicity and Disease Supplement 1, May 2021
- Highly public anti-Black violence is associated with poor mental health days for Black Americans | PNAS, April 2021
- The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals | JAMA, February 2021
- Polygenic burden has broader impact on health, cognition, and socioeconomic outcomes than most rare and high-risk copy number variants | Molecular Psychiatry, February 2021
- Racial Attitudes, Accumulation Mechanisms, and Disparities | Review of Philosophy and Psychology, February 2021
- Identifying challenges and recommendations for advancing global mental health implementation research: A key informant study of the National Institute of Mental Health Scale-Up Hubs | Asian Journal of Psychiatry, January 2021
- Fund Black scientists | Cell, January 2021
- Association between Ambient Air Pollution and Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Positivity in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment | JAMA Neurology, November 2020
- Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab | PLOS Computational Biology, October 2020
- Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism | Nature, July 2020
- NINDS Strategies for Enhancing the Diversity of Neuroscience Researchers | Neuron, June 2020
Perspectives
- “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Implementation of Antiracism” | JAMA Psychiatry 2021
- “Doctor as Street-Level Bureaucrat” | NEJM, January 2021 | Authored by Elvin Geng (WashU Medicine)
- Them and Me — The Care and Treatment of Black Boys in America | NEJM, November 2020
- Black scientists matter | Science, August 2020
- Black Lives Matter and Neuroscience: Continuing the Conversation | SfN Neuronline conversation thread (August 2020)
Podcasts and blogs
- Everywhere with CRE² | WashU Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE²)
- Your Brain and Racism | The Neuroethics Blog, Emory U, August 2020
- Racism as a public health issue | WashU School of Medicine podcast (06/25/2020)
- On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities | Health Affairs Blog, July 2020
