Author
Whitney C. Irie
Recent research
- BiologyOpen access
Black Women’s Health Futures: Speculative Method as Structural Intervention
Public health research predominantly works in the present tense. It documents the disparities that structural racism and gendered racism produce and projects them forward, modeling futures as extrapolations of present harm. For Black women, positioned at the intersection of racis...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common primary lipid disorder of childhood, affecting 1 in 250–350 children. Universal childhood cholesterol screening is an opportunity for earlier and more effective FH diagnosis and treatment that is superior to adult screening in...