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In this time of transition, we’re back with our annual list of health, medicine, and science books to check out this summer — and this time we’ve thrown podcasts in the mix, too. Read on for recommendations from the likes of Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and Chelsea Clinton. Plus, STAT readers from New York to Sweden share their picks, in addition to our staff. Enjoy! SEE SUGGESTIONS FROM: NOTABLE FIGURES | OUR READERS | OUR STAFF NOTABLE FIGURES “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” By Walter Issacson I recommend it because this captivating book provided clear and accessible explanations of the scientific…

Conversations with Health Law Leaders David S. Cade, Executive Vice President and CEO of AHLA, sat down with Daniel E. Dawes, JD, and other prominent health leaders on May 25, 2021, to discuss how we, as a community, can improve equity in health care and health law practice. LEARN MORE: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/publications/health-law-hub-current-topics/dei-in-health-care/equity-in-health-care-and-health-law-practice

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Dismantling barriers Another keynote speaker, Daniel Dawes, called CHA's equity pledge "one of the boldest calls to action that I have seen." Dawes is director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine and is its associate lead for government relations. He's also an author whose newest book, The Political Determinants of Health, addresses the question of how policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes. Dawes said that the social determinants of health in communities, such as economic stability and access to health care, can be traced back to political decisions. "Simply stated, the nation's health is…

Authored by: Kyle R. MacDonald, Danielle Barrasse, and Myrela Bauman Posted: June 28, 2021 In public health, much of our work depends on having accurate data, so we know what’s happening both on the ground and at a population level. Unfortunately, in many cases data has erased diversity by collapsing distinct groups of people into “convenient” categories for statistical purposes. This erasure frequently occurs when people from across the Americas are all labeled as Hispanic/Latinx, when hundreds of distinct tribal communities are all coded as American Indian, or when everyone who is not cis-gender or heterosexual is grouped together as LGBTQ+. Sometimes these groupings…