African-Americans At Johns Hopkins Medical Campus

National Black History Month - Hopkins Medicine

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African Americans make up approximately one-third of the patients and employees at the various Johns Hopkins hospitals—roughly on par with the percentages in Maryland as …

Improving the Black pre-med experience at Hopkins and …

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/05/improving-the-black-pre-med-experience-at-hopkins-and-natiownide

Trust Between Doctors and Patients is Culprit in Efforts …

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/Trust_Between_Doctors_and_Patients_is_Culprit_in_Efforts_to_Cross_Racial_Divide_in_Medical_Research

At Hopkins, the percentage of black medical students since 2000 has ranged between 8 percent and 11 percent. Joel B. Braunstein, M.D., a research fellow at …

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) - Hopkins Medicine

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Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) Employee Resource Groups are made up of staff members, typically from underrepresented groups, and their allies who volunteer to come …

Reflecting on the history of black students at Hopkins

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2018/02/reflecting-on-the-history-of-black-students-at-hopkins

Among these African-American students was late African-American musician Gil Scott-Heron, who was a Writing Seminars …

Frederick Scott, who became Johns Hopkins' first black …

https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/07/20/frederick-scott-johns-hopkins/

Frederick Isadore Scott, Oct. 27, 1927 – July 15, 2017. Scott did apply, and he got in. In February of 1945, he became the first African-American undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins. On Saturday, Scott …

Baltimore hospitals work to repair frayed trust in black …

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At Johns Hopkins, researchers famously took tissue cells from Henrietta Lacks, a black cancer patient, without permission in 1951. EDDIE REAVES, West …

Role of The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Johns Hopkins …

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Role of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. As medical records show, Mrs. Lacks came to Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo radium treatments for her cervical cancer. This was the best medical treatment available at the …

The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks - Hopkins Medicine

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At the time, The Johns Hopkins Hospital was one of only a few hospitals to treat poor African-Americans. As medical records show, Mrs. Lacks began undergoing radium …

Johns Hopkins hospital sued poor and African …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/15/johns-hopkins-hospital-sued-poor-african-american-patients-study

Johns Hopkins hospital sued poor and African American patients, study shows Baltimore hospital filed 2,400 lawsuits often against poor and black patients for unpaid medical bills...