The plight of thousands of migrant children separated from their parents has dominated recent media cycles, capturing the country’s outrage over a fundamental challenge…
Our default view of health is to think in terms of individuals – a specific disease or disability or how long a person will…
Yesterday I attended an all-day fair housing conference at UMSL, “Segregation in St. Louis: Dismantling the Divide,” organized by the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal…
I’m friends with two couples who each have a son, one white and one black. The families’ economic circumstances are basically the same. Like…
On January 30th three leading companies – Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. – announced they will join forces to form a…
Our recent release of research on white mortality in Missouri should be a wake-up call for the state. The findings of increased mortality over…
We live in unusually contentious times in our country. Our fundamental social compact – the mutually beneficial agreement on how we will live and…
As shared with the inaugural cohort of our Health Leadership Fellows Program during its graduation ceremony on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at Central Reform Congregation…
The opioid epidemic is one of Missouri’s most pressing health issues. To put it in perspective, roughly 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in…
Michael Brown’s death on August 9, 2014, sparked a cascading series of protests, reactions, and racially charged dynamics that have come to be broadly…