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A recent review examines the role of implicit bias in healthcare delivery and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, finding mixed results -- but stereotype replacement and intergroup contact consistently showed measurable positive effects.

Read more by Campbell (2025): tinyurl.com/26aj8wxa
A recent review examines the role of implicit bias in healthcare delivery and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, finding mixed results -- but stereotype replacement and intergroup contact consistently showed measurable positive effects.

Read more by Campbell (2025): tinyurl.com/26aj8wxa
Please join us Nov 6th, 3pm ET. Register here: tinyurl.com/59y6y64f
Are you a healthcare professional who feels betrayed by H.R. 1 and wants to take action to protect your patients? Join CHA & DFA for a webinar that will evaluate how healthcare practitioners can use their voices to increase awareness, advocate for change, and hold lawmakers accountable.
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Between gutting Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA cuts, H.R. 1 kicks 15 million Americans off of their health insurance and more than doubles premium costs for 22 million people.
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H.R.1 is the biggest cut to healthcare in U.S. history. The result: higher costs, worse coverage, strained care systems, and a public health crisis in the making.
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🗓️ Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 @ 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT 🗓️
Join @civichealthall.bsky.social & @drsforamerica.bsky.social for a special webinar: “Storytellers for Resistance: Healthcare Advocacy Post H.R.1"

Register here: tinyurl.com/59y6y64f
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Please join us Nov 6th, 3pm ET. Register here: tinyurl.com/59y6y64f
Are you a healthcare professional who feels betrayed by H.R. 1 and wants to take action to protect your patients? Join CHA & DFA for a webinar that will evaluate how healthcare practitioners can use their voices to increase awareness, advocate for change, and hold lawmakers accountable.
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Between gutting Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA cuts, H.R. 1 kicks 15 million Americans off of their health insurance and more than doubles premium costs for 22 million people.
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H.R.1 is the biggest cut to healthcare in U.S. history. The result: higher costs, worse coverage, strained care systems, and a public health crisis in the making.
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Structural racism was consistently associated with adverse health outcomes through mechanisms including redlining, residential segregation, clinical discrimination, carceral practices, and more.
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A new scoping review highlights pervasive structural racism across institutional & societal systems (healthcare, housing, the criminal legal system, & other sectors) that perpetuates health inequities.

Read more by Kisa & Kisa: tinyurl.com/484csdz9
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A new study finds that, relative to those w/ private health insurance, adults w/ public or no health insurance exhibit greater depressive symptoms during midlife -- and the severity of symptoms varies considerably across race & ethnicity.

Read more by Zhang et al.: tinyurl.com/472xwr2e
What are social medicine rounds?
Our Social Medicine Rounds are an opportunity to connect our staff, faculty, trainees and community members to leaders who discuss the medical, economic and psychosocial issues impacting the health and wellness of our Bronx community.
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The Bronx has some of the highest rates of youth incarceration in New York City, correlated to rates of youth unemployment and school dropouts. Addressing the root causes of these inequities requires us to take a whole-community approach.
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🗓️ Tuesday, October 28, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️
Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "Youth Represent’s Vision for Transformative Legal Advocacy"

Register here: tinyurl.com/typy39h
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A new study finds that COVID-19 infection, & the pandemic period broadly, had the strongest adverse implications for perinatal outcomes among marginalized racial & ethnic groups -- particularly among Hispanic, Asian, & Black pregnant people.

Read more by Liu et al.: tinyurl.com/2u44e6ru
A new @kff.org policy brief reviews the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate health equity initiatives and remove sociodemographic variables -- including racial, ethnic, and gender-identity data -- from online datasets and reports.

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A new study by Sneha Kannan et al. finds that private-equity acquisition of hospitals is associated w/ increased patient transfers, reduced ICU lengths of stay, & increased ED mortality -- likely due to reductions in staff & salaries.

Read more via @annalsofim.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/424ktazu
What are social medicine rounds?
Our Social Medicine Rounds are an opportunity to connect our staff, faculty, trainees and community members to leaders who discuss the medical, economic and psychosocial issues impacting the health and wellness of our Bronx community.
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