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Brad Greenwood
Brad Greenwood is an expert in intended and unintended consequence of innovation, and how access to the resulting information affects welfare at the interface between business, technology, and social issues; notably in the contexts of healthcare and entrepreneurship. He has done research on digital platforms, such as Uber, and their impact on policy and privacy. He’s an economist by training so he looks at unintended spillovers and how policy can change those results. Brad also has extensive knowledge of public population health and published a report on the high mortality risk Black babies face under the care of White doctors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Greenwood has been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Guardian, USA Today, Insider, Forbes, Becker's Hospital Review, Health Leaders Media, Washington’s Top News, Science News, and Nature.com.
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George Mason University School of Business
Associate Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management Sciences
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Black newborns in the US nearly thrice more likely to die in hospital under White physicians' care: Study
But when Black physicians cared for Black newborns, their death rate went down between 39% and 58%, the study reveals
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Black newborn mortality rate cut in half when cared by Black physicians
Black newborns die at triple the rate of white newborns, but that disparity is cut in half when they're cared for by Black doctors, according to a study published Aug. 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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‘Striking’ difference in Black newborn deaths based on doc’s race | WTOP
A new study finds that mortality rates for Black newborns are cut in half when their pediatricians are also Black.
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First, pragmatically, the disproportionately White physician workforce makes this untenable because there are not enough Black physicians to service the entire population. Second, it avoids the actual problem, because it doesn’t resolve the foundational concern of disparities in care, that is, if every family did this the disparities in care wouldn’t go away.
