Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences.

Dr Pilar Ortega joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Glenn Martínez, Marco A. Alemán, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, and Tiffany M. Shin: “Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health.”

Underrepresentation of individuals with limited English proficiency who speak Spanish is ongoing in phase 3 biomedical clinical trials and exacerbates health inequity.

Transnational violence has been created by international policy, militaristic interventions, and multinational organizational administration of border operations.

Dr Kristen N. Pallok joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr David A. Ansell: “Should Clinicians Be Activists?”

Physicians must respond with care to all patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions.

Devastating effects of COVID-19 among Latinos have not been adequately emphasized by media, public health, research, or government.

Hurricane María, earthquakes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and relentless privatization and fragmentation of the health care system have led to very poor health outcomes.

This commentary considers a grocery worker reluctant to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 and treated for COVID-19 out of fear of losing his livelihood.

CHWs’ work underscores need for clinicians and organizations to respond to deeply entrenched, long-standing patterns of oppression in ways that draw upon lived experience.