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This is a thread on racial inequalities in health, past and present. White health researchers like myself have a duty to learn the history, educate ourselves on the current issues, and use it to shape our work #BlackLivesMatter 
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ran from 1932-72 and recruited 600 African-American men to observe how untreated syphilis developed. The men were lied to about receiving free treatment and given placebos, despite a treatment being available by 1947 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
J Marion Sims developed many of the tools and methods of gynaecology, including the speculum, by performing experiments on enslaved women. This included surgery without anaesthesia. This article covers the decades-long struggle to re-evaluate his legacy https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/j-marion-sims/558248/
Francis Galton developed a large number of the statistical methods used today. He also coined the term eugenics, and believed families should be scored on "family merit" with breeding between high-scoring families encouraged with financial incentives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton
African-Americans are significantly less likely to receive opiate pain medication (eg, morphine) than white patients. This is true even for surgical pain, and the disparity has not reduced over time https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/article/13/2/150/1935962
Black women in England are 5 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. In the US black women are 3 times as likely to die as white women https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/reports https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6818e1.htm?s_cid=mm6818e1_w
Ethnicity is not collected in death registrations in England, so it is not possible to accurately study whether there are racial differences in life expectancy. However BAME people over 60 are more likely to report poor health than white people over 60 https://www.health.org.uk/sites/default/files/upload/publications/2020/Health%20Equity%20in%20England_The%20Marmot%20Review%2010%20Years%20On_full%20report.pdf
BAME medical students are significantly less likely to pass their specialty exams than white students, and once qualified are more likely to be referred to the General Medical Council for fitness to practice investigations https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards-guidance-and-curricula/projects/differential-attainment/data-and-research https://www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive/fair-to-refer
