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It took meeting a college classmate who had been diagnosed with migraine for Karamo Brown, a cast member of the Netflix show
Queer Eye, to realize there was a name and diagnosis for the debilitating headaches he’d been experiencing since he was a teenager. It clicked for me, says Brown, now 40. “I was like, ‘Oh, you can actually go to the doctor for this, you can talk to somebody? Oh, my gosh!’ And also, ‘I’m not alone with this feeling? You’re feeling exactly what I’m feeling?’” he recalls.
Unfortunately, Brown’s experience is not unusual. The majority of people with migraine never seek medical care for their pain, and more than half of people with migraine are never diagnosed, according to the Migraine Research Foundation.
By Bethany Hoffman
NIMHD s Dr. Rada Dagher said studying health disparities can help tackle issues underlying current health crises in the United States.
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities recently hosted a 2-day online workshop the Role of Work in Health Disparities in the United States to understand and address the role of work as a social determinant that contributes to health disparities.
The multidisciplinary workshop convened experts from the fields of health disparities, population sciences, labor economics, occupational health, epidemiology and organizational sociology and psychology to consider work as a social determinant and to identify priority research areas, potential mechanisms and interventions to address the role of work in health disparities.
A First-Hand Account of the COVID-19 Vaccine Trialsâ Racial Diversity Problem
Tanara Gilbert receives the COVID vaccine during the initial rollout in December.
When I first became interested in taking part in a coronavirus vaccine trial, I assumed all I had to do was step forward. I believed that the same characteristics that raised my coronavirus riskâBlack, over 60, Type 2 diabeticâalso made me highly sought-after as a volunteer. But it wasnât nearly that easy.
North Carolina was one of the first states to release coronavirus data by race. The numbers from Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, where I live, showed the disparate impact of the virus on people of color and were soon confirmed by the skyrocketing COVID-19 rates in other cities with high Black populations.
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A Hasidic man and medical workers cross paths near the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., in November. When public health messaging comes from community leaders, it s much more likely to be adopted, research on diverse groups finds. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services booked an unusual guest interviewer for one of its public health events this fall: Shulem Lemmer, the first Hasidic singer to sign with a major record label.
Lemmer has no particular expertise in public health, but he grew up in Brooklyn, home to many ultraorthodox Jews like himself. He s seen as a trusted messenger in parts of the Hasidic community that, despite suffering a disproportionate number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, have on some occasions resisted New York s pandemic restrictions.