Health Disparities

APA Joins Forces with the CDC Tips From Former Smokers® Campaign to Reduce Smoking Disparities

By Corinne Graffunder, PhD, (Director of the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health...

Black Boys and Men Face Daunting Odds, Here’s How We Can Promote Their Resilience and Future S

By Dawn X. Henderson, PhD (Co-Director, Collective Health and Education Equity Research (CHEER) Collaborative) When my son was just eight...

Why We Need to Act Now to Address the Harmful Effects of Unemployment on Black Millennial Men

By Abigail Luke (Intern, APA Public Interest Government Relations Office) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment...

What Can We Do to Combat the Maternal Mortality Crisis Affecting Black Women in America?

By Chelsea Crittle, MS (2018 SPSSI Dalmas Taylor Fellow) According to the latest research from the Centers for Disease Control and...

Depression in Black Boys Begins Earlier Than You Think

By Aaron Hunt, MS (Graduate Intern, APA Health Disparities Office) and David J. Robles, BA (Graduate Intern, SAMHSA Office of Behavioral...

The Cost of Being Poor in a Warming World

By Ashley Charest, MSPH (Health Policy Analyst Associate, Maryland Department of Health) If you don’t feel the impacts of climate change...

What Does Our Past Tell Us About Our Future? The Essential Role of Psychologists in Fighting HIV

(L-R) Dr. Rich Wolitski (HHS/OHAIDP); Dr. Fayth Parks (Georgia Southern University) APA Ad Hoc Committee on Psychology & AIDS (COPA)...

Is Poking Fun at Birthdays a Harmless Way to Celebrate Them?

By Sheri R. Levy, PhD, & MaryBeth Apriceno (Stony Brook University) Have you ever noticed that the tone of birthday cards for children is...

How Can We Better Protect LGBTQ Students: Psychologists Take Action

This slideshow requires JavaScript. By Joshua R. Wolff, PhD (Adler University); H.L. “Lou” Himes, PsyD (QuIPP); and Theresa Stueland Kay,...

A Fate Worse than Death? Being Transgender in Long-term Care

By Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD (Senior Research Scientist, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging) “I would kill myself.” This is what a 70...

Historical Trauma in the Present: Why APA Cannot Remain Silent on the Dakota Access Pipeline

By Susan H. McDaniel, PhD (2016 APA President) Protesters being marked with numbers, put in dog kennels and shot with rubber bullets....

Latinxs: Take Action to Stop HIV

By Karen Nieves-Lugo, PhD, MPH (Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University) October 15th is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day,...