Equity and Diversity

A health care worker uses a stethoscope on a Black baby.

Feature

Uncovering a dramatic disparity

A research study found that the in-hospital death rate of Black newborns is a third lower when they are cared for by Black physicians rather than white physicians.

The Johnson brothers with Carlson School Dean Sri Zaheer.

News Release

Johnson Brothers $1M gift will support underrepresented Minnesota students at Carlson School

To support underrepresented Minnesota students with financial need at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ Carlson School of Management, St. Paul-based Johnson Brothers is endowing a $1M scholarship.

News Release

University of Minnesota graduate awarded international scholarship to study in China

Graduate Lilli Ambort named Yenching Scholar.

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News Release

The U of M School of Public Health received a $5 million philanthropic gift from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to establish the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity

The center is dedicated to addressing and uprooting structural racism’s impact on health and healthcare.

Pregnant Black women getting an ultrasound

Research Brief

How skin tone bias and age affect preterm birth rates of Black women

Jaime Slaughter-Acey, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the School of Public Health, led the study.

Talking with U of M

Talking COVID-19 vaccination attitudes with the U of M

Ana Núñez with the Medical School talks about why these attitudes exist and how they could limit access to certain communities, particularly people of color.

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Equity and Diversity

Uncovering a dramatic disparity

Johnson Brothers $1M gift will support underrepresented Minnesota students at Carlson School

University of Minnesota graduate awarded international scholarship to study in China

The U of M School of Public Health received a $5 million philanthropic gift from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to establish the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity

How skin tone bias and age affect preterm birth rates of Black women

Talking COVID-19 vaccination attitudes with the U of M

Topic Experts

Sheila Riggs

Priscilla Flynn

Elise Sarvas

Equity and Diversity

Uncovering a dramatic disparity

Johnson Brothers $1M gift will support underrepresented Minnesota students at Carlson School

University of Minnesota graduate awarded international scholarship to study in China

University of Minnesota Twin Cities student awarded 2021 Truman Scholarship

The U of M School of Public Health received a $5 million philanthropic gift from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to establish the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity

How skin tone bias and age affect preterm birth rates of Black women

Talking COVID-19 vaccination attitudes with the U of M

Topic Experts

Sheila Riggs

Priscilla Flynn

Elise Sarvas