{"id":214,"date":"2022-04-07T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps-research-black-communities-overcomedev\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2023-07-05T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:57:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/research\/black-communities-overcome\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities Research Cluster is a group of researchers who seek to establish an innovative interdisciplinary research agenda on the relationship between structural inequalities and \u2018epidemics in Black communities\u2019 \u2014 broadly defined as persistent and significant disease 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