Summary: The infant mortality rate in USA exceeds that of most other developed nations, ranking 26th among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. <p>This ADC Spotlight podcast is about inequity and health. Professor Heather Burris is the first author of the paper “Racial disparities in preterm birth in the US; a biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/931). Professor Richard David is the author of the accompanying editorial “Inequity at Birth and Population Health” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/929). Both can be found in the October edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood and on our website at adc.bmj.com.</p>
