Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US

Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.org
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her pregnancy was in danger. “They don’t know us,” her mother reassured her.
Iyman Hamad, a Palestinian American public health graduate student at Wayne State University in Detroit, had to search online to figure out wh