"According to the Center for Disease Control, American Indian, Alaska native and Black women are two to three times more likely to die during pregnancy than a white woman."
"Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of Black communities."
"It was predictable that the obese, the South Asian ethnic people, black African ethnic people, the poor people, and the elderly... would succumb to COVID-19 in a big way, and they did."
"I've been privileged to spend my entire public health career in the struggle to reduce largely preventable health disparities and pursue health equity."
"Health disparities have always existed for the African-American community... it's shining a bright light on how it's unacceptable."
"The system is so rigged against poor people. Society wants them to suffer and basically not be healthy and thrive."
"We're going to address [health disparities] with the kind of reforms that expand the kind of choices and access to health care."
"These people are dying from diarrhea and cholera and things that don't really exist in first world countries."
"Individuals with lower socioeconomic status suffer disproportionately more harm."
"Look at the cancer rates in the West, then look at the African continent."
"The task force announced that black Californians with lower average lifespans and lower access to nutritious food would also be eligible for reparations."
"Black community has a greater prevalence of hypertension and diabetes."
"Black people have shorter lifespans because of diet and lifestyle, not just because they're Black."
"People of color are statistically and consistently found to be far more likely to experience miscarriage."
"How sick our community is, how much we're at the bottom of every health metric."
"People who are stressed, disadvantaged socially challenged in various ways... are going to be hit much more."
"These are the kinds of inequities that kill people."
"Data shows disproportionate COVID impact on American Indian/Alaska Native populations."
"Life expectancy is still below average. Wow, no private health care."
"Black women have the highest chances of dying to birth them and yet they are shortening the lives of their mothers they are literally killing black women indiscriminately."
"American Indians hospitalized 4.7 times more than white people."
"Racism raises Alzheimer's risk for non-white Americans, says HHS."
"The darker the color of someone's skin, the more likely they are to die."
"It's actually more dangerous for a black woman with a Ph.D. to have a child than a black woman with a high school diploma."
"Rich Europeans live longer than rich Americans."
"Mortal Kombat 9 is the best of the Mortal Kombat series and one of my favorite fighting games of all time."
"A lot of the things that kill black people tend to be preventable."
"The only allowable explanation for these racially disparate health outcomes is racism."
"From black lives matter to black women dying giving birth."
"Black lives matter, they never said black health matters."
"Interestingly in the black subjects... vegan men and women actually seem to be doing much better."
"Equity, equity, equity requires thinking outside the box about addressing health disparities, listening with care and compassion to the voices of academically trained people like Dr. Maricela Gomez and Dr. Mindy Thompson."
"Chronic disease rises for black women as they climb the socioeconomic ladder."
"Structural racism is a risk factor for worse health outcomes for minority groups in the United States."
"Type 2 diabetes is more prevalent in certain ethnic populations: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Native Hawaiians, or other Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans."
"It is also clear that racial and ethnic minority groups are at increased risk for COVID-19 hospitalization and deaths."
"Blacks and Hispanics have higher rates of stroke than Caucasians."
"That fueled my passion for the underserved and for health disparities."
"Only through broad social policy can we work to address sleep disparities and other inequalities."
"Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders are a mechanism through which disparities emerge and persist."
"The unfair distribution of sleep patterns across society contributes to the emergence and persistence of disparities."
"It’s not 'race' that causes higher rates of diabetes – rather, it’s structural injustice and inequity leading to differences in the environment that results in increased Type 2 diabetes incidence and poorer outcomes."
"The infant mortality rate; the gap between developed and developing countries has narrowed since 1980."
"African-American men have almost a double risk of prostate cancer."
"It was entirely foreseeable that pre-existing structural and health inequalities within ethnic minority and other vulnerable groups would result in disparities in risk and outcome."
"Black women in the U.S. suffer more, with their maternal mortality rate being 70 per 100,000."