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  • One Doctor’s Quest to Demolish Health Care’s Racist Barriers

One Doctor’s Quest to Demolish Health Care’s Racist Barriers

May 30, 2022

Alex Ortega, PhD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a May 30 Daily Beast story about ongoing efforts to solve racial disparities in health care.

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