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Linda Villarosa
Linda Villarosa is a journalism professor at the City University of New…
DiscoverLinda Villarosa at UCL
Co-hosted by the UCL Institute for Global Health, UCL Grand Challenges and The Lancet, this exciting event will see author, educator and journalist Professor Linda Villarosa (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University), discussing her work on the societal forces that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts.
Villarosa will connect the ways in which Black lives are far too often shaped by illness and suffering related to a range of factors: medical ignorance and discrimination, environmental racism and government neglect.
For more information and to book your ticket, visit the event website here.
Under the Skin
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation.
In the US, Black people have poorer health outcomes than white people at every stage of their lives: Black babies are more than twice as likely as white babies to die at birth or in the first year of life; Blacks in every age-group under sixty-five have significantly higher death rates than whites. Racial disparities in healthcare are impossible to ignore, and yet they have never been fully…
