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Section: Other News
Other News
Georgia Southern Awarded $3.25 Million Grant to Increase Diversity in Health Professions
Keith Belcher, Ph.D., director of the Medical Laboratory Science program at Georgia Southern University, is the recipient of the 2020-25 U.S. Department of Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) grant valued at $3.25 million. The grant funds the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program, designed to increase diversity in the health professions and nursing workforce by […]
June 29, 2020
Other News
Report: Fewer Blacks, Hispanics Enrolling in Medical Schools Amid Worsening Doctor Shortage
A new report by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), released on Friday, predicts an exacerbated doctor shortage in the U.S. over the next 15 years, at a time when Black and Latinx enrollment in medical schools is on the decline, USA Today reported. Authors of the report expect there to be a shortage of up to 139,000 […]
June 29, 2020
Disparities
Protests Prompt Re-Examination of Inequality in Medical Research
Scientists are grappling with historic inequities in medical research in light of racial justice protests gripping the U.S. Breaking through decades of mistrust from the Black community to ensure medical research adequately reflects the U.S. population means scientists need to think more about how they engage with minority groups. With more than $16.5 billion pegged […]
June 22, 2020
Other News
DACA Upheld, Protecting 30,000 Health Care Workers From Deportation
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arbitrary and capricious and therefore in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. As a result, thousands of “Dreamers” working in, or training to join, health care professions will now be allowed to stay in […]
June 22, 2020
Disparities
Chief Diversity Officers of the SEC to Present a COVID-19 Webinar on Health Disparities, Inequities and Possible Solutions June 24
Chief diversity officers from across the Southeastern Conference will offer a webinar, “A Pandemic in Our Communities—Health Disparities, Health Inequities and Possible Solutions,” on Wednesday, June 24. The event, which will explore the intersection of race and the COVID-19 health crisis, will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. CT (2–4 p.m. ET). The Vanderbilt-hosted […]
June 22, 2020
Disparities
Black Doctors Push for Anti-Bias Training in Medicine to Combat Health Inequality
George Floyd’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” have become a rallying cry during the weeks of protests against police violence. Doctors writing in the New England Journal of Medicine use those words as a refrain to lay out how systemic racism has negatively impacted the health of African Americans and how this is the moment […]
June 22, 2020
Disparities
Advice for Minority Students Considering Med School
According to the “Diversity in Medicine” report published in 2019 by the Association of American Medical Colleges, 5.8% of active physicians in 2018 identified themselves as Hispanic and 5% identified as Black or African American. These proportions are an underrepresentation of the national makeup of the U.S., since in 2019 Hispanics/Latinx and African Americans made […]
June 22, 2020
Other News
Dozens of College Athletes Test Positive for COVID-19 Since Their Voluntary Return
Dozens of student-athletes at more than 12 colleges have tested positive for COVID-19 since some of them returned to campus for voluntary workouts starting June 1, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The following schools have reported varying numbers of positive cases since allowing athletes back on campus: Marshall University, Oklahoma State University, Arkansas State University, Auburn […]
June 22, 2020
Disparities
Black Scientists Applying for NIH Grants Consistently Receive Lower Scores, Says Study
A new scoring approach introduced in 2009 was supposed to diminish bias during the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Enhanced Peer Review process, but Black researchers applying for the agency’s prestigious and highly competitive R01 grants consistently receive lower scores than White applicants in the first and critical phase of consideration, a new study reveals. […]
June 22, 2020
Other News
For Stressed-Out Black Americans, Mental Health Care Often Hard to Come By
If there is one thing that recent police brutality protests have demonstrated, it is that life for black people in America is steeped in stress. And while it might seem logical to assume that all that stress would translate into higher rates of mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, that doesn’t seem to be […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Judge Mostly Dismisses George Washington U’s Lawsuit Against its Hospital Partner
A D.C. Superior Court judge has partially dismissed a lawsuit George Washington University filed against Universal Health Services Inc., its corporate partner at GWU Hospital in Foggy Bottom, alleging UHS inappropriately diverted $100 million from the hospital to pay itself. The suit, filed in December by GWU and affiliated physician group GW Medical Faculty Associates, alleged that […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Public Health, Medical Professionals Support Protests, Highlight Health Inequities in Letter
Public health experts and health care providers say a recent wave of protests and unrest across the United States is a response to the kinds of inequities they see in their jobs on a daily basis. More than 1,000 physicians, professors, public health experts and students studying medicine or public health, including some from the […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Kinsey Institute and The Trevor Project Establish New Research Partnership on LGBTQ Mental Health
The critical need for research on LGBTQ youth mental health and suicide prevention — made even more critical by the COVID-19 pandemic — has led to a new partnership between the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, the premier research institute on human sexuality and relationships, and The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Health Experts Weigh in on Best Practices as Athletes Return to College Campuses for Workouts
College campuses are beginning to reawaken. They did last week and this week, and more will be apparent in coming weeks. Some collegiate athletes, many of whom have been home for two-plus months due to COVID-19, are beginning to return to school for voluntary workouts. The NCAA, in late May, approved the resumption of voluntary […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Colleges Debate Whether to Detail Positive COVID-19 Tests for Student-Athletes
Over the past two weeks, as college athletes have returned to campuses to work out and prepare for sports later this year, a handful of them have tested positive for the coronavirus. Arkansas State. Houston. Boise State. Iowa State. Oklahoma State. More than a dozen schools in all. Just how many positive tests isn’t known, however, […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
College Graduates Question Universities’ Commitment to Mental Health
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn renewed attention to mental health problems on college campuses and to the services institutions are providing to address the soaring rates of anxiety and depression among students. Now, a new survey suggests that more attention to mental health resources by American colleges is sorely needed, at least in the opinion […]
June 15, 2020
Disparities
‘We’re Losing Our Kids’: Black Youth Suicide Rate Rising Far Faster Than for Whites; Coronavirus, Police Violence Deepen Trauma
A decade after she tried to take her life as a college freshman, Victoria Waltz, a gifted child who played the harp, is only beginning to understand how things got so bad. “It’s been a journey and a process from then to now,” said Waltz, now 28. “It was a slow build up over time, starting in middle […]
June 8, 2020
Nursing
Texas Woman’s University Expands Dual Nursing Program to Second Community College
Texas Woman’s University (TWU) plans to expand its nursing program through a collaboration with Alvin Community College (ACC) in an effort to provide a more direct path to a nursing degree and reduce the cost of earning one. The collaboration with Houston’s ACC will launch in the spring of 2021 and students must maintain a […]
June 8, 2020
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