Leaders from a coalition of environmental, human rights, and religious organizations talk about the need to enact a nationwide moratorium on utilities shutoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Nancy Krieger talks about the negative health impact of historical injustices and systemic racism such as Jim Crow on African American and other minoritized communities.
Drs Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles talk about racism, police brutality, and health professionals' duty to promote health equity and social justice.
Dr Caleb Alexander examines the US Food and Drug Administration's controversial decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
Organizers of MIT Hacking Racism in Healthcare talk about design thinking as a way to find solutions to combat structural racism and advance health equity.
People with mental illness or a degenerative mental disease have special protections under the law when entering into contracts or other binding documents.