107. Race, Climate, and Health Inequities with Layal Liverpool

The Knowledge with David Elikwu

David speaks with Layal Liverpool, an author and science journalist with expertise in biomedical science, particularly virology and immunology. She worked as a biomedical researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford in the UK. Her writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, WIRED, the Guardian, and elsewhere, and she has worked on staff as a reporter for both Nature and New Scientist.

They talked about:

🏥 Racial disparities in maternal healthcare

🗣️ The importance of being heard in healthcare

🌐 The role of race in healthcare

🚮 The idea of environmental racism

🎓 The gap between healthcare education and systemic challenges

🧠 Racism as a public health issue in mental health

📜 Full transcript:

theknowledge.io/layalliverpool-2/

📹 Watch on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/Cq1cWubI6e0

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

FIVEXMORE | https://fivexmore.org/

Ella Kissi-Debrah | https://ellaroberta.org/about-ella

Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

Parkinson's disease | https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/parkinson-disease

Serena Williams | http://serenawilliams.com/

Dementia | https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia

NFL | http://www.nfl.com/

NFL race-norming formula | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133434-100-how-medical-tests-have-built-in-discrimination-against-black-people/

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) | https://www.sca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DEIMissionVision.pdf

An Audit of UK Hospital Doctors’ Knowledge and Experience of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8464998/

NHS | https://www.nhs.uk/

COVID-19 | https://theknowledge.io/issue7/

Urban heat island effect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCSE

Malcolm Gladwell | https://www.gladwellbooks.com/

👤Connect with Layal:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/layallivs

Website: https://layalliverpool.com/

Book: SYSTEMIC: How Racism is Making Us Ill | https://amzn.to/4c9lnaW

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