Heat waves are dangerous. Isolation and inequality make them deadly.

Hot climate + cold society = formula for disaster. A decades-old body of research has established that extreme heat hits low-income neighborhoods and communities of color the hardest. They are disproportionately likely to live in buildings with poor ventilation and...

New App Aims to Improve Odds for Expectant Mothers and Babies.

Growing up the daughter of an emergency room pediatrician and a registered nurse, Zoe Reich thought she understood as a person of color the extent that systematic racism led to health disparities. But it wasn’t until she was a student at the Rutgers-New Brunswick...