B. Denise HawkinsHomeFormer U.S. Surgeon General Discusses His Quest for Health EquityAt 79, Dr. David Satcher is one of the nation’s preeminent physicians, a respected civil rights leader and scholar, and a pioneering public health administrator. He is also the author of a new book.February 5, 2021Latest NewsIn Memoriam: Remembering Those We Lost in 2020In this memoriam, Diverse pays tribute to a few of the trendsetters and trailblazers, innovators and educators, scholars and thought leaders, champions and caretakers whom we lost in 2020. What links them is the indelible mark they left on the lives of countless students, higher education, society and the world.December 22, 2020HealthNobel Prize Spotlights Sickle Cell’s Disproportionate Impact on African AmericansCRISPR is a new technique that involves cutting out a tiny piece of the mutation or defective gene that causes sickle cell disease in the hopes that the corrected gene will then work to make normal hemoglobin (a protein in red blood cells) instead of the sickle-shaped hemoglobin that gives the disease its name.December 1, 2020COVID-19President-Elect Joe Biden Considering Dr. James E.K. Hildreth for The Coronavirus TaskforcePresident-elect Joe Biden has made the raging COVID-19 pandemic a priority for his incoming administration, naming a list of prominent scientists, researchers, scholars and government health leaders to a new coronavirus taskforce. Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, an infectious disease expert and president of the historically Black Meharry Medical College, may also play a role in shaping the nation’s coronavirus response in the new administration.November 18, 2020African-AmericanKamala Harris Touts Her Howard University, Alpha Kappa Alpha ConnectionsAt 17, in the early 1980s, Kamala D. Harris made her first run for an elected office. Then, the woman who would become a U.S. senator seized the moment to lead, representing her freshman class on the Liberal Arts Student Council at Howard University in Washington, D.C. As soon as she got to campus, Harris, […]October 28, 2020COVID-19ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 PandemicIn a Q&A, Diverse speaks with Dr. Jean Chin, an associate clinical professor of medicine at Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, about the American College Health Association’s “Supporting Vulnerable Campus Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic” guidelines.August 30, 2020African-AmericanHBCUs Bracing for Major Hurricane Forecast to Hit Gulf CoastJust days after reopening for the fall semester and cautiously bringing their students back to campus during a still-raging coronavirus pandemic, some historically Black universities in New Orleans are now bracing for a major hurricane named Laura that’s expected to make landfall Wednesday along the Gulf Coast.August 25, 2020African-AmericanDr. Namandjé Bumpus Becomes First Black Woman to Chair a Department at the Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineIn May, Dr. Namandjé Bumpus made history when she was named director of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The appointment makes Bumpus the first African American woman to lead a department at the School of Medicine and the only African American woman currently chairing a pharmacology department at any medical school in the United States.August 23, 2020African-AmericanMorehouse Takes Center Stage in Response to COVID-19’s Impact on Minority CommunitiesWith a $40 million grant, the federal government has asked leaders at Morehouse School of Medicine to mount a widespread, comprehensive fight against COVID-19 in communities that have been hardest hit. The work that MSM will do with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health over the next three years is historic and massive — and getting underway in the middle of the pandemic.August 17, 2020African-AmericanOpening Up? Taking a Look at Fall Reopening Decisions at HBCUsSince COVID-19 forced schools to shutter in March, HBCU campus leaders said they’ve faced difficult decisions and had to make some unpopular ones as they prepared for an uncharted fall. In this roundup, we highlight plans that some HBCUs have cautiously devised to bring their students back to campus this fall, teach them virtually or do a mixture of both — all during a relentless pandemic in the United States.August 16, 2020Page 1 of 15Next Page
