In the News: Quotes & Mentions

Cook Center associate director of research Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards has been featured in two videos and an article by Duke Global Health Institue (DGHI) where she discusses her recently published co-authored journal article titled Race, Racism, and Covid-19: Lessons Not Learnt. In the journal article, which was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dr. Bentley-Edwards…

Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, assistant professor at the Duke University School of Medicine and expert in health equity, joined WUNC’s Embodied podcast to discuss the racial dimensions of the U.S. maternal health crisis, particularly for Black women in North Carolina. Bentley-Edwards emphasized that while Medicaid expansion and hospital access are essential policy fixes, they cannot address…