In an article in the Charlotte Post, Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Ph.D., co-director of the Duke University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Center for Equity in Research, discusses how the U.S. maternal mortality gap can be traced to slavery-era medical exploitation of enslaved African women.
The article, which was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, features Dr. Bentley-Edwards’s expertise about the dire results of “racialized myths” that formed a basis of medical professional training for generations…
Read the full article here.
