Features

Neighbors in Need

For decades, community health efforts have brought care to people in areas underserved, and often overlooked, by mainstream medicine

• Health Equity
• Clinical Practice

Through the Eyes of a Child

The barrage of strife, unrest, and outrage over the deaths of Black people in this country falls hard on the young

• Health Equity
• Pediatrics

Field Correction

Race-based medicine, deeply embedded in clinical decision making, is being scrutinized and challenged

• Health Equity
• Clinical Practice

Written in the Skin

• Health Equity

Tailored for Perfection

The self-doubts that many high-achieving people develop when facing the demands of academics or a profession can be crippling

• Mental Health
• Medical Education

Who'll Stop the Rain?

The outsized toll COVID-19 has taken on people of color reflects the insidious effects of structural inequity

• Health Equity
• Infectious Disease

Attuned to the Signs of Trouble

Dermatologists specialize in diseases of the skin, but can also find clues to diabetes, cancer—and even COVID-19

• Clinical Practice
• Cancer

Direct Approach

Harvard center aims to accelerate human skin disease research worldwide

• Discovery
• HMS Community

Sun, Skin, and Science

Many hands work to shift the story of melanoma

• Cancer

In the Grip of a Disease

During the 1918 influenza pandemic, HMS students, faculty, and alumni stepped in to care for the afflicted and research the cause

• Infectious Disease
• HMS Community

On the Margins

Insensitivity, or worse, discrimination, takes a significant toll on the health of LGBTQ individuals

• LGBTQ Health
• Medical Education

Pattern Constraints

The persistent stress that sexual and gender minorities experience can lead to harmful mental health consequences

• LGBTQ Health
• Mental Health

The Body, The Self

The care of people with intersex traits evolves as clinicians and researchers learn more—and listen more

• LGBTQ Health
• Clinical Practice

The Data Trail

Gathering a patient’s health history is a key first step in the delivery of quality care, but LGBTQ patients may worry about the potential costs of sharing what they’ve long held close

• LGBTQ Health
• Clinical Practice
• Health Equity

Adaptive Learning

Medical education needs to use a long lens when preparing young doctors for careers in primary care

• Medical Education