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Incarceration’s Affect on Female Family

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Study Finds Incarceration of Loved Ones Correlates to Early Vascular Aging in African American Women By Rama Esrawee African Americans have been subjected to racialized mass incarceration from the post-slavery era to modern-day police brutality. It’s not just an isolated event,” says Fields.

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LISTEN: Wellington Onyenwe on where toxicology, food and justice intersect

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Onyenwe, a current fellow and a Health Scientist, Environmental Toxicologist and Public Health Emergency Responder at the U.S. Brian Bienkowski So this is probably a hard question for you, given all your experiences, but what is a moment or event that has helped shape your identity? You know, being a latchkey kid.

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Cancer’s Juvenescence: An Incoming Tide and the Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift

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markets, overseeing large physician networks and other health systems, including so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that oversee the care of tens of thousands of attributed patients. Many of those individuals are between the ages of 20 and 40. Yet, given the trends, these starting ages might still be too high.

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LISTEN: Mokshda Kaul on making the clean energy transition work for all

Environmental Health News

Brian Bienkowski And before we get into some of that, some of the energy justice work you've done, and what you're working on now, what is a moment or event that has helped shaped your identity up to this point? So I guess that's where that idea of environmental justice kind of ticked in my brain. How does it matter? So what's going on there?