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Eraka Bath

Improved mental-health services and justice-system support for foster-care and juvenile-justice-involved youth from marginalized communities.

Marcella Aslan

Researched medical mistrust, showing racially concordant physicians boost preventive care among Black men.

Lauren McCullough

Studied how obesity and neighborhood deprivation drive breast-cancer outcome disparities among underserved populations.

Kemi Doll

Improved diagnosis, treatment, and advocacy for Black women with endometrial cancer facing delayed care.

Tiffany Green

Studied racial and immigrant-status inequities in maternal and infant health, especially affecting Black and immigrant mothers.

Black Americans have the highest rate of heart attacks, heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest in the United States

David Williams

Focused on impacts of daily discrimination, which contribute to poor health.

Paola Gonzalez

Championed bilingual, culturally responsive oncology care and improved health access for Latino communities facing resource barriers.

J.C. Abdul-Mutakabbir

Led vaccine equity efforts among Black and Hispanic communities, specifically combating COVID-19 vaccine inequity.

Lauren McCullough

Studied how obesity and neighborhood deprivation drive breast-cancer outcome disparities among underserved populations.

Tiffany Green

Studied racial and immigrant-status inequities in maternal and infant health, especially affecting Black and immigrant mothers.

Mary Bassett

Centered her work on structural racism’s impact on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities’ health outcomes.

Kizzmekia Corbett

Helped develop mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and worked to build vaccine trust in Black communities.

John Ayanian

Worked to uncover and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare quality and outcomes, particularly among Black versus White patients.

Wizdom Powell

Focused on reducing health inequities among African American men by examining how racism and masculinity norms impede help-seeking.

David R. Williams

Illuminated how structural racism harms health, documenting worse outcomes for Black Americans and other marginalized groups.

Kafui Dzirasa

Increased neuroscience research inclusivity and highlighted exclusion of African-ancestry data in mental-health studies.

Marcia Cruz-Correa

Led efforts to reduce colorectal and hereditary cancer disparities among Hispanic and Puerto Rican populations.

Chandra Jackson

Researched how social and environmental factors drive racial disparities in sleep and metabolic health.

Tesa Anewishki

Led a West Side safety-net hospital where she combats diabetes, food insecurity and access issues for Black and Brown patients.

Harriet Washington

Exposed racism’s historic and ongoing impact on Black health through research, writing, and advocacy.

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