“Business as usual isn’t working for people, and it hasn’t worked for a long time,” writes Betty Bibbins, MD, BSN (MD ’82), a member of the EVMS Board of Visitors, in an editorial published in the Virginian-Pilot. “Pick your health problem and the data hold the same pattern.” Dr. Bibbins (pictured above) detailed stark realities for people of color living in Hampton Roads, including that prostate cancer kills Black men in Portsmouth at a rate nearly three times greater than white men. Meanwhile, in Norfolk, Black maternal and infant mortality is three times greater. Learn more about these issues in the Pulse link in our bio. #healthdisparities #blackmaternalhealth #blackmaternalmortality