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Oakland U Med School Starts New Diversity Initiative

Anyone in a class or breakout room at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine can now see firsthand that the school is intent on leading the way in implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that benefit students and educators alike. Officials recently installed posters detailing “Learning Environment Guidelines” that are aimed at “promoting […]

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Howard University Receives Grant to Focus on Sickle Cell Disease Education

Howard University is furthering its efforts to conduct research and combat health disparities that disproportionately affect the Black community. The Washington, D.C.-based HBCU recently received a grant to focus on sickle cell disease education and outreach. The $42,000 endowment—gifted by the Walter Brownley Trust Bank of America, N.A.—will go towards Howard University’s Department of Pediatrics […]

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U of Florida Tells Professors Not to Order Sick Students to be Tested for Coronavirus

GAINESVILLE – Florida’s flagship university is warning its professors to stop requiring students who may be visibly sick to leave class and be tested for the new coronavirus. The orders from the University of Florida reflect rising anxieties about the illness on a campus with more than 6,000 international students amid the virus’s rapid global […]

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At Department of Medicine’s Diversity and Inclusion Week, Challenging Conventional Wisdom

“Great minds think differently.” If there was a unifying idea expressed by speakers at the Department of Medicine’s first diversity and inclusion week, it was probably that. Hannah Valantine, MD, of the National Institutes of Health, said it first, when she opened the Jan. 29 sessions with her grand rounds presentation. Sonia Aranza, a global […]

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Racism as a Public Health Crisis

At the close of 2019, Pittsburgh declared embedded racism “a public health crisis affecting our entire city.” This was an act of recognition by the city’s leaders of the profound impact of racial inequities on the health of its black and brown residents. It is easy to understand the threats to neighborhoods made proximate to […]

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Sandy Hicks, 79: First Recipient of MLK Award in 1987, Longtime Community Activist

MANCHESTER, NH — Sandra “Sandy” Toryeanea Hicks died peacefully January 22, 2020, at home in Manchester at the age of 79 after a long illness. Sandy is known for being the first recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr.Award in 1987 and also, in the same year, the recipient of the New Hampshire Unsung Heroine Award. […]

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UH Graduate Honored Alongside Madam Curie and Florence Nightingale

Alice Augusta Ball, University of Hawaiʻi’s first female and first African-American graduate, was honored alongside Marie Skłodowska-Curie (a.k.a. Madam Curie) and Florence Nightingale, with their names etched on the façade of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The school celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2019. Ball, who passed away at the age of 24, was […]

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Opinion: Don’t Blame Students for Requesting Better Access to Mental Healthcare

I like to compare my anxiety disorder to a spiral. It coils around my heart, and on a good day, it’s relaxed, hanging loosely around it. There are other days, though, when the coil winds itself tight around my chest, making it hard to breathe and work and do any of the countless other activities […]

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Dr. Wilkins Named Co-principal Investigator for Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Just a year after becoming vice president of Health Equity and associate dean of Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Consuelo Wilkins, M.D., was recently named as a second principal investigator for Vanderbilt’s Institute for Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA). There she will promote health equity initiatives, community engagement and recruiting […]

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Health Sciences Professor Among Connecticut Magazine’s 2020 Class of Influential Up-and-Comers

Alvin Tran, Sc.D., MPH was in a coffee shop in Seattle over winter break when he received an email stating he’d been recognized by Connecticut Magazine. At first, he thought it was a joke or a spam email, but after rereading, he realized it was the real thing. “I was ecstatic and overjoyed,” said Tran, 32, an […]

Duke Medical Center Archives the Work of the Hospital’s First African American Surgeon

The Duke Medical Center Archives recently obtained the complete collection of writings by Onyekwere Akwari, the first African American surgeon at Duke University Medical Center. The Akwari Papers consist of his medical findings, research papers, immigration documents, correspondences and assorted photographs. In coordination with the Department of Surgery, the DMCA spoke with his wife, Anne […]

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LGBTQ College Students More Likely to Develop Eating Disorders, University Research Says

A new University of Minnesota study found that LGBTQ college students are more likely to develop eating disorders than their heterosexual and cisgender peers. The study, which used data from the College Student Health Survey, aimed at finding the existing disparities between the rates of eating disorders in LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ students. The researchers also […]

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