Articles by Joint Center
Joint Center
Companies lower healthcare costs for workers
With the passing and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, more than 7 million Americans have been afforded the opportunity to sign up for comprehensive healthcare coverage. A provision that came…
Florida’s Direct File Harms Youth
The Human Rights Watch report “Branded for Life: Florida’s Prosecution of Children as Adults” explains that although most US states do not allow direct file (sending juvenile offenders straight to adult court…
Culturally-Tailored Community Health interventions are Effective in Decreasing Smoking Rates among Southeast Asian Men
Culturally-tailored Community Health interventions are Effective in Decreasing Smoking Rates among Southeast Asian Men Though smoking prevalence rates have decreased due to smoking cessation policies and intervention programs since 1970s,…
ACA creates job opportunities for people of color
Healthcare is the fastest growing labor sector. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to increase many low- and mid-skill health care occupations by increasing demand for primary and preventative…
Underemployment disproportionately high in African-American community
The problem of underemployment is one that affects the entire country but disproportionately impacts the African American community. An annual report by the National Urban League, One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America, found that African Americans…
Air Pollution Exposure Greater for Minorities
A new report titled National Patterns in Environmental Injustice and Inequality, indicates a disparity in exposure to air pollution, specifically nitrous oxide exposure, among nonwhites compared to whites. This disparity is greater…
HIV/STD intervention program for African American MSM
African American men-who-have-sex-with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Young African-American MSM accounted for the highest number of new HIV infection among all gay men in 2010. To address this disparity,…
New IPCC Climate Change Report Reasserts Disparate Impacts on Marginalized Communities
In an interview with Between the lines, Interim Director of the Joint Center’s Energy and Environment Program, Dr. Michael Dorsey, discusses the latest IPCC climate change report and the disparate impacts of climate change…
EVENT: Creating pathways to success for men and boys of color April 18-19
Host: The Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Dean’s Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity and the Morehouse Research Institute Location: Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education Date: April 18…
Are you really healthy? Disparity in self-rated and physical health
What can be said of perceptions around being healthy in the African American community? A new studypublished in the journal Ethnicity & Disease showed a discrepancy between self-rated health and physical health in the…