September 17, 2024
Originally published in The Baltimore Sun.
In Baltimore, Black residents tend to be hit the hardest by public health crises, but results from a community survey released Tuesday by Johns Hopkins University show that income level and educational attainment are more powerful than race at predicting whether a Baltimorean has lost someone close to them from a drug overdose. The research brief cites results from the Baltimore Area Survey — a new annual survey of people living in the city and Baltimore County run by the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative.