https://www.blackhealth.org/articles/black-church-mental-health-evidence-synthesis-hankerson-triumph-culturally-adapted-therapy/Black Healthen2026-05-15T20:06:59.215894-05:00Why the Black church is the studied lever for closing the Black-mental-health-treatment gaphttps://www.blackhealth.org/articles/hankerson-2012-black-church-mental-health-programs-review/Black Healthen2026-05-15T20:06:58.507865-05:00Hankerson 2012 reviewed 1,451 studies on church-based health programs for African Americans. Only eight addressed mental disorders. The framework-and-evidence-gap explainer.https://www.blackhealth.org/articles/cdc-mmwr-large-tuberculosis-outbreaks-united-states-2017-2023-black-disparity-42-percent/Black Healthen2026-05-15T20:06:57.629645-05:0042 percent of large US tuberculosis outbreaks 2017-2023 were Black or African American patients. Two-thirds of outbreaks happened in family and social networks, not jails or shelters.https://www.blackhealth.org/articles/bohren-2017-doula-continuous-support-evidence-explainer/Black Healthen2026-05-15T19:55:33.988817-05:00Continuous labor support across 27 trials and 15,858 women cut cesarean births by 25 percent. The evidence base for doula care, summarized.https://www.blackhealth.org/articles/avis-2015-swan-vasomotor-symptoms-black-women-explainer/Black Healthen2026-05-15T19:55:33.500044-05:00Black women in the SWAN cohort had a median 10.1 years of frequent hot flashes and night sweats during the menopause transition, compared with 7.4 years overallhttps://www.blackhealth.org/articles/hall-2016-culturally-adapted-therapy-meta-analysis-black-mental-health/Black Healthen2026-05-15T19:55:33.008705-05:0078 studies, 13,998 participants: culturally adapted therapy produced a medium effect-size advantage over unadapted versions for racially and ethnically minoritized clientshttps://www.blackhealth.org/articles/hoffman-2016-pain-bias-black-patients-medical-trainees-believe/Black Healthen2026-05-15T19:55:32.412899-05:00About half of US medical students and residents endorsed at least one false belief about Black-vs-white biology in a 2016 study. The result has held up.https://www.blackhealth.org/articles/postpartum-depression-black-women-zuranolone-superwoman-schema/Black Healthen2026-05-15T19:55:31.708697-05:00Black women face roughly twice the postpartum-depression rate. Treatment access runs the opposite direction.