Stories by Utibe Effiong

Utibe Effiong, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician, public health scientist, and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Central Michigan University.

I Can’t Breathe: Asthma, Black Men and the Police

The common, chronic inflammation of the airways may help explain why deaths in custody are so high among African-Americans

This multistate problem carries implications for our responses to future epidemics

Western governments and NGOs are grappling with their own outbreaks, leaving African nations largely on their own

The search for a coronavirus treatment should not come at the expense of poor, ailing people

The CDC calls their misuse “one of the most serious public health problems in the United States”

There's an effective vaccine, but 12 states still don't require it for incoming students