Ryan Huerto – The Conversation

Open to eat indoors – but will you? David Mbiyu/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

December 23, 2020

Would you eat indoors at a restaurant? We asked 5 health experts

Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia; Kathleen C. Brown, University of Tennessee; Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan; Sue Mattison, Drake University, and Thomas A. Russo, University at Buffalo

Experts weigh in on whether they will sit and eat at a restaurant.

Emergency medical technicians bring a patient into Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 6, 2020 in New York. Bryna R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images.

June 3, 2020

Doctors can’t treat COVID‑19 effectively without recognizing the social justice aspects of health

Zoë Julian, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Rachel R. Hardeman, University of Minnesota, and Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan

While African Americans account for about 14% of the US population, they have accounted for about 60% of deaths from the virus. Several physicians offer an idea they think could help.

Minority patients often have better rapport with a same-race or same-ethnicity doctor. Getty Images / ER Productions Limited

February 13, 2020

Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors, but that’s a hard match to make

Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan and Edwin Lindo, University of Washington

Minority patients do better when treated by doctors who share the same race or ethnicity But there’s a problem. Most doctors are white, and only 6% of doctors are black.

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