20 citations
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March 2022 in “The AMA Journal of Ethic” This article discusses how racial essentialism impacts health professions education by increasing prejudice and reducing empathy, and it suggests reforms to emphasize racism as a cause of health inequity, without presenting new research data.
28 citations
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February 2021 in “Open Forum Infectious Diseases” This review highlights how social, environmental, and biological factors combine to increase COVID-19 risks in the African American community, emphasizing the need to understand these complex disparities; it reports no new results.
November 2025 in “Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology”
5 citations
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November 2021 in “History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences” This article explores how narratives around racial and ethnic minorities versus fat individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic influenced the framing of these groups as "at-risk," with disparities in blame and responsibility linked to structural racism and anti-obesity rhetoric.
25 citations
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October 2020 in “Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities” This study found that zip codes in Oakland County, MI with larger Black populations were disproportionately affected by COVID-19, experiencing higher incidence rates, though racial composition was not linked to case fatality.