Advancing Healthcare Equity

Disparities in occupational exposures lead to higher rates of cancer in firefighters than in the general population. To learn more about within-firefighter disparities, more granular data are required for in-depth analysis.

Sponsored by the Paul and Marie Castelfranco Lecture series

It is well known that women living in low-resource settings have poorer breast cancer survival than those in high-resource settings.

Measles is one of the oldest, most familiar, extensively studied, preventable, and still-epidemic infectious diseases of humans.

In this talk, Dr. Christoph Hanssmann analyzes how transgender health activists and providers in Buenos Aires and New York City collaborated to develop depathologized models of trans- therapeutic health care.

This talk shows how doctors, hospital administrators, lawyers, judges, and lawmakers employed claims of fetal personhood to compel pregnant women to undergo treatment they refused on behalf of the fetuses they carried between 1960 and the present.