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Researchers will survey households in Homewood and the Hill District to examine the health effects of bacteria and mold in damp spaces, and help residents develop solutions.
The Sankofa Community Garden, founded and directed by Vikki Jones, has become a central part of the Homewood neighborhood as inflation and food insecurity increase. The garden provides programs that educate locals on gardening methods and food injustice.
More fragmented sleep and longer periods of wakefulness after bedtime among a group of low-income African American adults were associated with lower cognitive function such as poor attention, according to a new study.
A new study will follow residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh to examine how exposure to the legacies of structural racism at the...
US food security gains obliterated by pandemic SHARES The research focused on two neighbourhoods in the US city of Pittsburgh. Food insecurity spiked among residents living in two predominantly African American neighbourhoods during the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, far outpacing food insecurity observed among the general US population during the same period. This is according to a new RAND Corporation study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Following residents of two Pittsburgh low-income African American neighbourhoods, the study found that the pandemic increa...