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🗓️ Tuesday, October 28, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don’t miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: “Youth Represent’s Vision for Transformative Legal Advocacy” Register here: tinyurl.com/typy39h (1/4)

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A new study finds that COVID-19 infection, & the pandemic period broadly, had the strongest adverse implications for perinatal outcomes among marginalized racial & ethnic groups — particularly among Hispanic,…

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A new @kff.org policy brief reviews the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate health equity initiatives and remove sociodemographic variables — including racial, ethnic, and gender-identity data — from online datasets…

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A new study by Sneha Kannan et al. finds that private-equity acquisition of hospitals is associated w/ increased patient transfers, reduced ICU lengths of stay, & increased ED mortality —…

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🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don’t miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: “Our Brother’s Keepers”: Protecting the Health Needs of Foreign-Born Residents Register here: tinyurl.com/4fzamd2n (1/3)

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A recent @jama.com study shows that the introduction of immunotherapy in individuals with newly-diagnosed cancers widens the survival inequity between privately insured and uninsured patients. Read more by Zhao et…

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A new @npr.com piece spotlights ACA enrollees, many of whom are managing chronic health conditions, who face premium spikes of ~75% next year when federal tax credits expire: tinyurl.com/4k7tat62 How…

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A new @npr.com piece spotlights ACA enrollees, many of whom are managing chronic health conditions, who face premium spikes of ~75% next year when federal tax credits expire: tinyurl.com/4k7tat62 How…

Black Maternal Health and HIV/AIDS: Advocacy Lessons Across Movements

The state of Black maternal health in the United States is dire—and has been for centuries. Despite incredible gains in civil rights, Black women are still three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women. In some places, like New York City, this number is as high as nine times.