Upcoming and recorded events, blogs, and more regarding health inequities, research and education, and other resources.
Upcoming Events
- “Towards Systemic Health Equity: The Unfinished Work of Reconstruction in St. Louis” | Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Oct 11, 5:30p
- “Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural Latin America” | Brown School | Oct 16, 4p
- “Applying a Community Focused Approach to Conduct Brain Health and Aging Research with Black Men and Former NFL Athletes” | Knight ADRC Norman R. Seay Lecture | Oct 22, 4p
- Da Hood Talks Takeover II — “Beyond Good Intentions: Bridging the Gap between Black Communities and Research Communities” | Institute for Public Health Collaborative Cafe | Oct 24, 10a
- Da Hood Talks Takeover III — “Beyond Good Intentions: Bridging the Gap between Black Communities and Research Communities” | Institute for Public Health Collaborative Cafe | Nov 15, 11a
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! Potential of mindfulness to enhance cognitive health in Latinx older adults being studied (10/7/2024)
- New NSF grant to fund faculty equity programs and new center focused on civic mindfulness (9/13/2024)
- McBride leads Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (7/24/2024)
- Racial disparities in dementia determined by social factors (7/11/2024)
- Study aims to understand genetics of Parkinson’s disease in Black people (6/17/2024)
- Heemstra co-authors blueprint for promoting diversity in the lab (2/5/2024)
- Color-blind conversations: Listeners can look beyond race when processi ng speech (12/6/2023)
- Long-COVID clinic expanding reach to vulnerable metro, rural communities (11/21/2023)
- Washington University partners on $3.8 million CDC grant (10/26/2023)
- 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! The relationship of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, parental education, financial hardship and comorbid mental disorders with quality of life in college students with anxiety, depression or eating disorders | Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024
- NEW! The Hispanic paradox in child maltreatment: Does it fade over time? | Child Abuse and Neglect, 2024
- NEW! The Impact of Cultural and Institutional Race-Related Stress on Mental Health Outcomes Among Ethnic/Racially Minoritized Young Adults: Ethnic Identity as a Protective Factor | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2024
- Early Adversity and Socioeconomic Factors in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis: A Case-Control Study | Neurology (R) Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, 2024
- ECOG-ACRIN EAZ171: Prospective Validation Trial of Germline Predictors of Taxane-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Black Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer | Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2024
- Child Age at Time of First Maternal Concern and Time to Services Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 2024
- Negligence in biomedical research: an anti-racist approach for substance use researchers | Frontiers in Public Health, 2024
- A Protocol for the Inclusion of Minoritized Persons in Alzheimer Disease Research From the ADNI3 Diversity Taskforce | JAMA Network Open, 2024
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Seizures, and Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults | JAMA Network Open, 2024
- Neighborhood Resources Associated with Psychological Trajectories and Neural Reactivity to Reward after Trauma | JAMA Psychiatry, 2024
- Benefits and challenges of geographic information systems (GIS) for data-driven outreach in black communities experiencing overdose disparities: results of a stakeholder focus group | BMC Public Health, 2024
- Impact of social vulnerability index on severity of obstructive sleep apnea: Insights from drug-induced sleep endoscopy | American Journal of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery, 2024
- Opioid use disorder risk alleles in self-reported assigned African American/Afro-Caribbean and European biogeographical genetic ancestry groups and in males and females | Pharmacogenomics Journal, 2024
- Exploring Pediatric Code Status, Advance Care Planning, and Mode of Death Disparities at End of Life | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2024
- Racial and economic segregation and diabetes mortality in the USA, 2016-2020 | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2024
- Temporal Trends and Racial Disparities in Long-Term Survival After Stroke | Neurology, 2024
- Social vulnerability and surgery outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis | BMC Public Health, 2024
- The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in the Conduct Disorder Literature: A Time-Sensitive Review | Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, 2024
- Baseline levels and longitudinal changes in plasma Aβ42/40 among Black and white individuals | Nature Communications, 2024
- Disentangling factors contributing to individual differences and health disparities in chronic pain and whole person health with measures of allostatic load | Brain, Behavior and Immunity – Health, 2024
- A systematic review/meta-analysis of prevalence and incidence rates illustrates systemic underrepresentation of individuals racialized as Asian and/or Asian-American in ADRD research | Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 2024
- SDPR expression in human trabecular meshwork and its potential role in racial disparities of glaucoma | Scientific Reports, 2024
- Association of county-level socioeconomic status with meningioma incidence and outcomes | Neuro-Oncology, 2024
- Trends Over Time in Stroke Incidence by Race in the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Stroke Study | Neurology, 2024
- Assessment of COVID-19 Messaging Strategies to Increase Testing for Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | Journal of School Health, 2024
- Disparities in mental health symptoms among sexual and gender diverse subgroups in a national sample of college students | Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2024
- Environmental and sociocultural factors are associated with pain-related brain structure among diverse individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain: intersectional considerations | Scientific Reports, 2024
- Racial disparities among mild stroke survivors: predictors of home discharge from a retrospective analysis | Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2024
- Assessing Culturally Tailored Dementia Interventions to Support Informal Caregivers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD): A Scoping Review | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2024
- Is Multidimensional Poverty Associated to Dementia Risk? The Case of Older Adults in Pakistan | Innovation Aging, 2024
- Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens | International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
- Underrepresented and Underserved Populations in Neurological Research | Seminars in Neurology, 2024
- Treatment setting and buprenorphine discontinuation: an analysis of multi-state insurance claims | Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2024
- Promoting diverse perspectives: Addressing health disparities related to Alzheimer’s and all dementias | Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 2024
- Mitigating Health Disparities in brain Disorders Starting with basic Science: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineWashington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2024
- Elevating Voices, Addressing Depression, Toxic Stress, and Equity Through Group Prenatal Care: A Pilot Study | Health Equity, 2024
- Understanding racial disparities of glaucoma | Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, 2024
- The Saint Louis bridges program: A mental health network of more than one hundred churches and the mental health community | Journal of the National Medical Association, 2023
- Disparate Dementia Risk Factors Are Associated with Cognitive Impairment and Rates of Decline in African Americans | Annals of Neurology, 2023
- Describing providers’ perspectives on the needs and challenges of family caregivers of African American people living with dementia | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 2023
- Relationships of Cognitive Measures with Cerebrospinal Fluid but Not Imaging Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Vary between Black and White Individuals | Annals of Neurology, 2023
- Socioeconomic status and healthcare utilization disparities among children with epilepsy in the United States: Results from a nationally representative sample | Scientific Reports, 2023
- Ethno-racial variation in psychotic experiences in the United States: Findings from the National Latino and Asian American Survey and the National Survey of American Life | Schizophrenia Research, 2023
- Hearing, β-Amyloid Deposition and Cognitive Test Performance in Black and White Older Adults: The ARIC-PET Study | The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2023
- Association of organizational culture and climate with variation in the clinical outcomes of collaborative care for maternal depression in community health centers | Implementation Research and Practice, 2023
- Door-To-Door Video-Enhanced Prevalence Study of Tourette Disorder Among African Americans | Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2023
- Was COVID-19 Associated With Worsening Inequities in Stroke Treatment and Outcomes? | Journal of the American Heart Association, 2023
- 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