Nov 27, 2017 | Journal Publications
CHAS Fellow Anup Malani and colleagues discuss the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its failure to substantially improve health care for minorities. As the authors explain, de facto segregation continues as evidenced by hospital usage statistics; just 20% of U.S....
Nov 21, 2017 | Journal Publications
Asian Americans are at an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, but current screening practices may not be catching it. In this study, CHAS Fellows Elbert Huang and Kao-Ping Chua discovered Asian Americans were the least likely racial and ethnic group to receive a...
Oct 27, 2017 | Journal Publications
Previous studies have documented the relationship between intimate partner violence victimization and increased risk of HIV in women. It is also known that migrant women are disproportionately affected by these co-occurring problems, but few have explored why....
Oct 23, 2017 | Journal Publications
Earlier this year CHAS Fellow Matthew Epperson and his colleagues from the Smart Decarceration Initiative (SDI) published a manual of 16 guideposts for practitioners, advocates, reformers, and researchers working towards decarceration. These guideposts elaborate of...
Oct 19, 2017 | Journal Publications
When compared to white women, African American women are less likely to be diagnosed by breast cancer, but more likely to die from it. Moreover, decreases in national rates of breast cancer-related mortality have historically been seen in white populations years...
Oct 3, 2017 | Journal Publications
Based on the 2008 inaugural meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), this article, which is co-authored by CHAS Fellow Brian Callender, discusses the need for standardized competencies in the rapidly expanding field of global health...
