Black Mortality Studies Released

Our Medical Monday conversation takes a look at the reports and the impact on the black community.

It was a shocking and sobering pair of reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (JAMA) From 1999 to 2020… Black communities saw 1.6 million more deaths than the white population. Our Medical Monday conversation takes a look at the reports and the impact on the Black community.

Resources:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804822

Dr. Reed Tuckson, MD, Co-Founder, Coalition For Trust In Health and Science

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore-Cummings, Distinguished Presidential Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management