For a brief moment, in the early days of COVID-19, some reports heralded the new
coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, as a “great equalizer.” It is unlikely that any anthropologist …

Alanna A. Morris, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, Chair; Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH, MACC,
FAHA, Vice Chair; Abdul R. Abdullah, MD*; Amitava Banerjee, MD, FAHA; LaPrincess C …

Police violence is a pressing public health problem. To gauge the illness associations of
police killings–the most severe form of police brutality, we compile a unique multilevel …

A collateral consequence of mass incarceration in the United States is its negative effects on
population health. Using data from 2015, this study examines the relationship between …

Background Mass incarceration has collateral consequences for community health, which
are reflected in county-level health indicators, including county mortality rates. County jail …

The Coronavirus Pandemic has altered the ways we use shared space fundamentally.
Policymakers across the nation have enabled police to deploy the power of the state to limit …

Objectives. To evaluate the relationship between changes in county jail incarceration rates
and subsequent county mortality rates across the United States. Methods. We analyzed …

Adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, neglect, and poverty, profoundly alter
neurobehavioral development in a manner that negatively impacts health across the …

Background Most research on discrimination and health operationalizes discrimination as
direct individual experiences. Here, we examine the social patterning of vicarious …

While evidence for neighborhood effects on adverse birth outcomes is growing, no studies
have examined whether living in a neighborhood impacted by mass incarceration is …