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How racism chips away at health
Racism is having devastating effects on Black Americans’ physical and mental health, according to sociologist David Williams.
Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was interviewed on CBS’s 60 Minutes in a segment on racism and health that aired on April 18, 2021.
“Imagine a fully loaded jumbo jet, with 220 passengers and crew taking off and crashing today, and the same thing happens every day next week, and every day next month, and every day for the rest of the year,” said Williams. “That’s exactly what is occurring when we say there are racial disparities in health in the United States. Over 200 Black people dying prematurely every single day.”
In the weeks since Trump supporters assaulted the Capitol, the message has become increasingly clear: The country must examine and confront its underlying racism its caste system to move forward as a democracy. That was the theme Monday in “A Catalyst for Humanity,” a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson hosted by the Forum at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and presented by the Nieman Foundation and the Chan School’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
“You cannot heal what you have not diagnosed. You cannot repair what you do not see,” said Wilkerson, author of the recently released “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” which examines America’s history of inequity. Her award-winning 2010 book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” told the story of the great migration of Black Americans out of South and to other parts of the nation. The Chan School forum, moderated by CNN anchor Don Lemon, kicked off a monthly series designed to harness �
Discrimination Linked to Anxiety Risk by Colleen Fleiss on January 17, 2021 at 12:06 AM
Discrimination may increase the risk of anxiety disorders regardless of genetics, said a multidisciplinary team of health researchers led by Tufts University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Researchers determined that even after controlling for genetic risk for anxiety, depression, and neuroticism, greater reports of discrimination experiences remained associated with higher scores of anxiety and related disorders.
The findings, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that discrimination is a risk factor for anxiety and related disorders rather than solely a result of common genetic liability.