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This policy brief reviews recent scholarship from members of the Diversity and Health Disparities cluster and offers important insights to meet the intertwined challenges of neighborhood inequalities and racial health disparities.

This policy brief provides an overview of current legislation that discriminates against parents with disabilities. It also considers non-discriminatory legislation that has been enacted or is currently being enacted at the state level, with the hope of encouraging more states—eventually all states—to adopt similar legislation.

This policy brief reviews literature on the challenges transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals face in overcoming discrimination and harassment, with particular focus on the role of conditioning restroom access as a key site of social exclusion.

Back in March we interviewed Ralf Hotchkiss, a renowned disability rights activist, engineer, and co-founder of the Whirlwind Wheelchair project, based in Berkeley, CA.

The Haas Institute is thrilled to welcome eminent legal scholar Sonia Katyal as the new Distinguished Chair of its LGBTQ Citizenship research cluster. Katyal, the Chancellor's Professor of Law and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law &...

We are proud to welcome Janelle Scott as the Robert C. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities, leading the Haas Institute’s Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy research cluster. Scott is an Associate Professor...

BERKELEY, CA: Rent control policies are key to stabilizing California’s housing affordability crisis, which has driven millions of people into poverty and displaced hundreds of thousands of others, a new analysis released Wednesday by the Haas...

The Haas Institute at UC Berkeley on Wednesday released a resource pack that compiles hundreds of scholarly works on Islamophobia in the US.

Claire Snell-Rood is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley and a member of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster. Here, she discusses mental health problems facing women in rural areas and effective policy and non-policy interventions that can help address these challenges.

This fall, we will explore the use of the police and other government oversight agencies as a tool of power wielded by white people against their neighbors of color—and the various systemic factors that have contributed to this phenomenon. First in...