The pandemic has exposed brutal racial and ethnic health disparities. Marcella Nunez Smith discusses the reasons behind them, most of which existed long before the pandemic, and those working in her field “sadly, expected these numbers.”

Click above to listen to part 1 of Race and COVID, featuring Marcella Nunez SmithAssociate Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine and Director of Equity Research and Innovation Center.

Race and COVID:
Part 1: Marcella Nunez Smith / Racial Disparity
Part 2: Utibe Essien / Racial Data
Part 3: Nina Jablonski / Skin Color
Part 4: Robert Sapolsky / Us vs. Them
Part 5: Harold Frazier / COVID checkpoint

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