Addressing health inequities in the Black community

In the Division of Cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Kamal Henderson, MD, is working to understand why marginalized communities shoulder a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease. At the CU Cancer Center, Curtis Henry, PhD, is investigating whether obesity — a condition more common in underserved communities including the Black community — inhibits the effects of cancer-targeting immunotherapies. And in the CU Department of Pediatrics, Brandi Freeman, MD, is part of a research team focused on addressing infant mortality and prematurity levels among Black women in Colorado that are higher than the national average.