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A Commentary on Social Unrest

The VCU Center on Society and Health denounces the recent rise in expressions of hatred in America and the increasingly threatening and violent acts of intolerance occurring in communities across the country. We feel compelled to speak out in response to the events of August 11-12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where hundreds of white supremacists, neo-Nazi…

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Media interest in report on the U.S. health disadvantage

I have recently spoken a lot with reporters in my capacity as chair of the National Research Council-Institute of Medicine panel, which in January released its recent report on the U.S. health disadvantage. The report, The U.S. Health Disadvantage in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, delivered some stunning news: Americans at all ages up…

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