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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 […]

February 17, 2020

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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 […]

February 10, 2020

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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 […]

February 10, 2020

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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. […]

February 10, 2020

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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 […]

February 10, 2020

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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 […]

February 10, 2020

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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 […]

February 10, 2020

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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 […]

February 10, 2020

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 […]

February 3, 2020

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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 […]

February 3, 2020

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Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Secure $5.9 Million NCI Grant to Improve Cancer Care for Minority and Underserved Communities

BRONX, N.Y., Jan. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Montefiore, the University Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has received a $5.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to build on its success recruiting minority and underserved patients into cancer clinical trials and delivering the highest quality cancer care. This new grant, part of […]

February 3, 2020

On Social Media, Racist Responses To Coronavirus Can Have Their Own Contagion

Even though there are just a handful of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S., federal officials are taking action to limit the spread of the disease. The White House declared a public health emergency on Friday. Americans who were evacuated from China last week are now under a quarantine. And most foreign nationals who […]

February 3, 2020

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Seven Ways to Expand Diversity in Precision Medicine Research

Ethnic and racial minority populations in the U.S. have a long history of being mistreated by the health care system, researchers and the government. The resulting mistrust can pose a challenge for researchers seeking to understand the biology of complex traits, as well as for physicians interested in delivering personalized care to diverse patients. Diversity […]

February 3, 2020

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Vegas-Area Med Schools Aim to Boost Student Body Diversity

Malcolm Douglas remembers how the close relationship he had with his pediatrician growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn, New York, helped him feel safe and respected. “He kind of guided me toward a career in medicine, throughout my schooling, he pushed me more toward the sciences,” Douglas said. “He helped me develop my […]

February 3, 2020

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NIH’s New Cluster Hiring Program Aims to Help Schools Attract Diverse Faculty

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hoping universities will use a controversial—and largely untested—method of hiring junior faculty members to improve the diversity of the U.S. biomedical research workforce. Last week, a top-level advisory group gave NIH officials the green light to launch a $241 million initiative called Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation […]

February 3, 2020

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Q&A with medical diversity leader Leon McDougle, M.D., MPH

As president-elect of the National Medical Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization representing black physicians, Leon McDougle, M.D., MPH, has the responsibility of visiting doctors and medical students across the country. He spent time in Houston this month in the run-up to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observance to speak with medical school faculty, […]

January 27, 2020

Faculty Senate rings in 2020 with updates to health care, education, structure

The UA Faculty Senate met for the first time this semester, kicking off the new year with an update on sexual assault resources and diversity initiatives, as well as changes to general education, senate structure and employee health care. SAFE CENTER Public efforts to bring a nonprofit Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Center to Tuscaloosa […]

January 27, 2020

UIS PERSPECTIVES: Addressing UIS students’ mental, emotional health needs

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 19.9 million students are attending a college or university in the U.S. this year, including students pursuing both undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Illinois Springfield. Most people think of college as an exciting time of learning and growth — a time to become […]

January 27, 2020