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Faculty & Staff
Speaking The Patient’s Language
Speaking The Patient’s LanguageIn efforts to more effectively serve the increasingly Hispanic clientele, University of Texas requires Spanish courses for health care students, but critics question responsibility of language barrier.By Lydia LumAs this country becomes increasingly Hispanic, a growing number of universities now offer — and sometimes require — Spanish courses geared to health care […]
Health
Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Classroom
Addressing HIV/AIDS in the ClassroomEducators encouraged to teach the ‘whole child’By Phaedra BrothertonWASHINGTONA 20-member panel of scholars, practitioners and teacher education experts came together last month to determine the core information K-12 educators need to know in order to address HIV/AIDS in their classrooms and, ultimately, to help prevent the spread of the disease. Funded […]
HBCUs
Fighting Tobacco Use Among Blacks
Fighting Tobacco Use Among BlacksPilot projects at NCCU, Morgan State train students to be better informed on tobacco issuesBy Eleanor Lee YatesSignificant pilot projects at two historically Black colleges and universities will train students to gather more data and address the problems facing African American smokers. The programs may well provide policy models for other […]
Health
Letters
LettersDear Editor, I work for the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program (NC-HCAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NC-HCAP is a program that prepares underrepresented minorities and people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds to become competitive applicants of undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. Generally, these students are prospective health professionals. The goal […]
Health
Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial Data
Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial DataProposal is proving divisive among academics, and even past Connerly supportersBy Pamela BurdmanWard Connerly, the regent who brought the affirmative action ban to the University of California, now is taking his campaign for race-blindness a step farther with a controversial new proposal that already is infuriating academics. After […]
Leadership & Policy
Criticism of Howard University Hospital
Criticism of Howard University Hospital Residency Programs Raises QuestionsBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAn unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the residency programs at Howard University Hospital has generated a flurry of activity, including a major story in the Washington Post and the subsequent reorganization of the oversight committee that manages […]
Health
Oprah Winfrey Endows NYU Program for African Women
Oprah Winfrey Endows NYU Program for African WomenNEW YORKThe Oprah Winfrey Foundation has awarded a $2.5 million endowment to New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service for the creation of The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program for African Women. The program, which will allow African women to pursue graduate studies in public policy and management […]
Health
University of Louisville Stakes Black Cancer Reduction Rates on Filling Endowed Chair
University of Louisville Stakes Black Cancer Reduction Rates on Filling Endowed ChairLOUISVILLE, Ky.The University of Louisville will try to recruit a top national researcher for a position created last month to lead efforts to reduce cancer rates among Blacks. The university formed an endowed chair in oncology as part of a public-private partnership to boost […]
Health
UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE
UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CAREFor many in the U.S. health care establishment and the media, the March 2002 release of “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” by the Institute of Medicine brought unexpected news. The 562-page report, which reviewed more than 100 studies, concluded that minorities […]
Health
Race Matters Health Care
Race Matters Health CareExperts say eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is the civil rights issue of our dayWASHINGTONWhen the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine released its report earlier this year documenting that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care, many African Americans in the medical and health care […]
HBCUs
Calling on the Black Community’s Best and Brightest
Calling on the Black Community’s Best and BrightestI was one of those people who associate editor Robin Smiles in her article “Race Matters in Health Care” says “yawned” when the Institute of Medicine released its report recently, which documented that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care. I thought […]
Leadership & Policy
Howard University Student Crowned Miss USA
Howard University Student Crowned Miss USAGARY, Ind.Howard University broadcast communications major Shauntay Hinton, 23, was crowned Miss USA earlier this month. The Starkville, Miss., native’s knees buckled when she was declared the winner at the pageant held in Gary, Ind. “It took all of my strength to lift myself back up,” she says. “It’s just […]
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