December 16, 2024
Milwaukee’s approach: How officials and advocates want to address racism as a public health crisis
“If we’re not going to name racism in the first place, then we’re not going to start to develop solutions to address it,” said Dara Méndez, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Health Equity.
November 18, 2024
Study: Racism and sexism keeps Black moms from losing pregnancy weight
The finding flies in the face of a culture of “individual responsibility” around maternal health, said Dara Méndez, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Health Equity.
November 15, 2024
Allegheny County Executive announces new Board of Health appointments
Dara D. Méndez, PhD, MPH, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Health Equity, has been included in a group of eight new members appointed to the Allegheny County Board of Health.
November 11, 2024
Experiences of discrimination linked to postpartum weight retention
“Beyond individual choices and behavior, we have to account for an individual's environment, because that can have an impact on health, too,” said lead author Dara Méndez, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Health Equity.
October 24, 2024
Introducing the 2024-2025 Health Justice Scholars
Pitt’s Center for Health Equity welcomes a new cohort to the Health Justice Scholars Program.
October 18, 2024
EMBRACE Center awarded $13 mil to improve Black birthing outcomes
“Each component of the EMBRACE center is co-lead by community partners or a community clinician,” says Associate Professor of Epidemiology Dara Méndez.
September 18, 2024
New efforts to combat anti-science rhetoric and encourage vaccines topic of Pitt panel
“Any decline we’re seeing in vaccination rates is concerning,” said Theresa Chapple-McGruder, director of the Center for Health Equity and associate professor of health policy and management.
September 9, 2024
Hundreds of places in the US said racism was a public health crisis. What’s changed?
“If we’re not going to name racism in the first place, then we’re not going to start to develop solutions to address it,” said Dara Mendez, associate professor of epidemiology.
July 19, 2024
Center for Health Equity director named
An epidemiologist and public health leader has been appointed associate professor of health policy and management and director of the Center for Health Equity (CHE) at the School of Public Health. She is Theresa Chapple-McGruder, PhD, MPH, who will assume her new role at Pitt on Aug. 1.
May 13, 2024