DR. VANESSA NORTHINGTON GAMBLE
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
The Boston Globe
"Long Criticized by Conservatives, this Federal Agency Has Transformed Under Trump"
Julian E.J. Sorapuru
June 7, 2026
The Washington Informer
"Preserving Black History, Narratives and Uplifting the Black Press"
Washington Web Informer Staff
December 30, 2025
The New York Times
"Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H."
Jennifer Schuessler
November 15, 2025
The Washington Informer
"March On!’ Festival Reimagines Public Health in Black America"
Jada Ingleton
September 24, 2025
Smithsonian Magazine
"The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades"
Ella Jeffries
March 31, 2025
NPR
"Black Hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price"
Lauren Sausser
August 10, 2024
NPR
"Peter Buxtun, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Whistleblower, has died at 86"
Debbie Elliott
July 16, 2024
The Lancet
"Vanessa Northington Gamble: pioneer in histories of race and health"
Aarathi Prasad
October 28, 2023
NPR
"How Black WWI Veterans Got Their Own VA Hospital in Tuskegee"
Debbie Elliott
September 29, 2023
STAT
"How a Black veteran desegregated a Texas medical school"
Theresa Gaffney
February 14, 2023
Science News
"Medical racism didn't begin or end with the syphilis study at Tuskegee"
Aimee Cunningham​
December 20, 2022
Forbes
"Meet The Medical Pioneer Who Founded America's First Black-Owned Hospital"
Leah Rosenbaum
July 10, 2021
The New York Times
"Overlooked No More:
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Who Battled Prejudice in Medicine"
Cindy Shmerler
July 17, 2021
BillyPenn at WHYY
"When yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia, Black residents were asked for help. Then they died."
Layla A. Jones
March 27, 2021
BBC
"The female physician who
popularised the Pap smear"
Rachel E. Gross
March 27, 2021
TIME
"COVID-19 Isn't the First Pandemic to Affect Minority Populations Differently. Here's What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu""
Emily Barone
August 7, 2020
Science
"From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most"
Lizzie Wade
May 14, 2020
Virginia Public Media
"In 1918 Pandemic, Black Richmond Faced New Virus and Old Racism"
Ben Paviour
May 11, 2020
Forbes
"Coronavirus Has Exposed The World To Health Disparities In Black America: So What Now?"
Lisa Fitzpatrick
April 8, 2020