Giving undocumented immigrants and those with DACA status (DREAMers) access to health care and medical education enables them to contribute to these systems.

Ethical and legal questions arise when public health research that provides a benefit to society at large can potentially cause harm to the subjects.

To many patients, racial concordance is an important aspect of the patient-physician relationship.

The author discusses why the U.S. needs ethnically diverse medical professionals in order to stay competitive in the global economy.

Community education about how patients can best communicate with their physicians has been successful in various communities, particularly when working with an ethnically diverse patient population.

Reducing racial disparities in pain treatment requires an interdisciplinary approach to identifying causes of racial biases and teaching health care professionals to recognize and reduce them.

Dialogue-based learning can help medical students recognize, acknowledge, and overcome their biases.

Stressful life experience associated with racial and ethnic discrimination can have detrimental effects on the coronary and cardiovascular health of people in historically marginalized groups.

Efforts to meet the demand for organs have long had disproportionate effects on members of particular races, not only because of disparate levels of need for transplants but because of the way our donation system works.

When identifying underrepresented subgroups deserving of special recruitment efforts for research participation, social determinants of health other than race should be given more consideration.