just be a black woman living in the United States.”)54 But if you’re feeling optimistic, slow your roll. Wray’s application for funding to continue her research in low- and middle-income countries was turned down. The research was “not a high enough priority,” according to the British Medical Research Council.55 The council members might as well have just come out and said it: the health of women—especially nonwhite and poor women—matters very little.
