Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

The Health Impacts of Structural Racism

According to Associate Professor of Sociology Tyson H. Brown, we could avoid 229 premature deaths each day if we removed existing racial disparities in health. The problem is even more pressing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brown examined those issues in his Langford Lecture “Who Gets Sick and Why? How Racial Inequality Gets Under the Skin.”

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