I’m a fourth-year med student, but I only learned one historical example of medical racism

I’m a fourth-year med student, but I only learned one historical example of medical racism

Last December, news broke that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had awarded $1.6 million to a Danish vaccine research group to study the effects of the hepatitis B vaccine on infants in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau. The proposed five-year study compared outcomes between infants vaccinated at birth and those vaccinated at six weeks of age. As a medical student and researcher, I was shocked by the brazen inequity of the t…