Research

Social and environmental contexts can shape these influences over time.

A working paper from the USC Schaeffer Center and Brown University found the global vaccine campaign among 141 countries saved 2.4 million lives from January 2021 to August 2021. The study estimates 670,000 more lives would have been saved if COVID-19 vaccine distribution was more equitable.

Among White adults, many of the gender differences in educational experiences documented in the oldest cohort were still found among the most recent cohort; Most race inequities in educational experiences persiste

The study identified high rates of over-screening and under-screening among a national cohort of commercially insured women, signaling the need for interventions to improve guideline adherent screening

The main contributors to vaccine inequity include vaccine nationalism, intellectual property rights, constraints in manufacturing capacity, poor resilience of healthcare systems, and vaccine hesitancy.

The research findings support the idea that an aging immune system is associated with short-term mortality independent of age-related inflammation or other age-related measures of physiological dysfunction.

Substance use disorders (SUD) and overdose deaths worsened further during the Covid-19 pandemic in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities.

Differential eligibility may contribute to underrepresentation of some minoritized racial and ethnic groups in early AD trials. Amyloid biomarker eligibility is a requirement to confirm the diagnosis of AD and for treatment with amyloid-lowering drugs and differed among racial and ethnic groups.

Ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics, are less likely than Whites to engage in advance care planning.

This case series study examines the clinical evidence cited for US Food and Drug Administration–approved clinical decision support devices