Improved treatment access, survivorship support, and clinical-trial participation for Black women with breast cancer.

Documented How Structural Racism Drives Cancer Disparities for Black Americans.

Championed eliminating racial health disparities, especially infant mortality, HIV/AIDS, and care for minorities.

Addressed racial health disparities by researching food insecurity, diabetes, and policy interventions for equity.

Pioneered interventions improving doctor-patient communication and community engagement to reduce racial health inequities.

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

Advanced equity by addressing police violence as a health issue and improving COVID-19 vaccine access for Black and Brown communities.

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

Focused on how racism—not race itself—drives health inequities, especially among Black and other racially minoritized populations.

Advanced Indigenous health by providing mobile HIV/STI testing, education, and culturally responsive interventions.

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

Advanced equity by improving cancer prevention, tobacco control, and health access for Black, Asian, and other underserved communities.

Addressed cancer screening disparities among older adults, especially in underserved populations.

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

Developed cancer screening strategies for effectiveness across diverse populations.

Advanced health equity by exposing racism’s role in poorer health outcomes for Black and other marginalized communities.

Fought cancer inequities by exposing delayed diagnoses and poorer treatment among Black patients and underserved communities.

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

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

Built California’s First Statewide Black Birth Justice Movement.

Developed low-cost screening interventions to boost colorectal cancer detection in underserved Latino and rural populations.

Tackled childhood trauma and toxic stress, highlighting disproportionate impacts on Black and low-income children.

Fought Black Maternal Mortality Through Education and Advocacy in Georgia

Exposed how racism undermines Black Americans’ health at every stage.

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

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

Created First Program Addressing Black Patients’ Barriers to Lifesaving Organs

Led community-engaged research on behavioral health, chronic disease, and trauma among Alaska Native and American Indian populations.

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

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

Worked to eliminate COVID-19 and healthcare inequities affecting Black, Latino, and other marginalized communities through research and policy leadership.

Pioneered Text-Based Mental Health Support for Low-Income Latinx Communities

Focused on reducing cardiovascular and chronic-care disparities among under-served populations through social-determinants research.

Leading voice for ensuring that health breakthroughs reach all communities.

Examined racial disparities in cancer-clinical trials by highlighting much lower awareness and participation among Black survivors.

Advanced equity by improving mental-health access and culturally appropriate care for Latino and other underserved populations.

Exposed lead poisoning in Flint, championed public health initiatives for vulnerable children.

Reduced cancer inequities by developing mathematical models of treatment differences, especially among Black and white prostate-cancer patients.

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

Improved tobacco-cessation and chronic-disease outcomes among Latino communities and other underserved groups.

Exposed racism’s role in health, highlighting systemic causes of Black health inequities nationwide.

Addressed smoking-cessation disparities and tobacco use prevention among Asian American and other immigrant populations.

Tackled lung-cancer screening inequities by creating decision aids and outreach tools for underserved, high-risk populations.

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

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

Pioneered Research on Postpartum Depression in Black New York Mothers.

Confronted Medical Racism, Leads Historic Equity Reckoning for Black Americans.

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

Championed “Pharmacoequity” to Combat Medication Disparities Affecting Black Patients.

Focused on reducing disparities in advanced-care planning and treatment access among Hispanic and female patients with Parkinson’s disease.

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

Developed the “weathering” theory, showing chronic racism caused early health decline, especially in Black mothers and infants.

Fought Against Cardiovascular Health Disparities in Black Communities.

Translated Health Equity Research Into Practice for Hospitals and Health Systems Nationally.