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March 16, 2021
Producer: Karen M. Sughrue Editor: Heru Muharrar Released: March 16, 2021 Vaccines began to bring an end to polio in 1955, but – as with the Covid vaccine today – Black...
February 3, 2021
While doing research as an undergraduate in Australia during the late-1970s, Naomi Rogers stumbled upon some dusty volumes of the British Medical Journal in her university’s...
November 13, 2020
On Monday, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced early data that showed a vaccine it has been developing in partnership with the German drug manufacturer BioNTech was...
September 9, 2020
Ashanti Shih, PhD ‘19 awarded the The W. Turrentine Jackson (Dissertation) Award for her dissertation  “Invasive Ecologies: Science and Settler Colonialism in Twentieth-...
July 29, 2020
By Eric Bock Scientists involved in machine learning often don’t know the origins of the datasets they use to write and test algorithms, including where the Pima Indians...
July 22, 2020
“Policing in America: A Community Forum for Sickness and Health Alums” This community forum featured a discussion between Dr. Carolyn Roberts, Demar F. Lewis IV, MPP, Faith...
June 16, 2020
GLC Director, David W. Blight talks with Carolyn Roberts and Sascha James-Conterelli on Race, Health, and Medicine during the COVID 19 global pandemic. To watch click here