An unintended consequence of affirmative action — a policy meant to boost diversity — is that it can been wielded like a weapon to make people of color feel like they don't belong. The Times spoke with Black and Latino Americans who wonder if this stigma will persist.
Gold Coast Health Plan appointed Dr. Felix Nuñez as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr. Nuñez is a board-certified family physician and health care leader with more than 25 years of leadership in managed care and health care delivery. A proud native Angeleno and first-generation Latino, Dr. Nuñez was raised in a Mexican-American Los
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In a new study by MIT professors Esther Duflo, Ben Olken, and Abhijit Banerjee, and physicians Marcella Alsan and Fatima Cody Stanford, along with other doctors and economists, public health video messages featuring a racially diverse set of physicians were found to decrease knowledge gaps about Covid-19 symptoms and transmission generating important lessons about how we communicate about, and work to mitigate the effects of, the virus. Study results also indicated that, for Black individuals, watching a video with a racially concordant (Black) physician increased the degree to which they sought out more information about Covid-19.