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Section: Health
Disparities
âWeâre Losing Our Kidsâ: 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. âItâs been a journey and a process from then to now,â said Waltz, now 28. âIt was a slow build up over time, starting in middle [âŚ]
June 8, 2020
Nursing
Texas Womanâs University Expands Dual Nursing Program to Second Community College
Texas Womanâs 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 Houstonâs ACC will launch in the spring of 2021 and students must maintain a [âŚ]
June 8, 2020
Disparities
Summit Discusses Mental Health and Equity on College Campuses
On the second day of the virtual Campus Prevention Network Summit, hosted by EVERFI, conversations focused on diversity, equity and inclusion on campuses as well as the mental health of Black women students. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inequities in higher education, especially as most colleges moved online. Turns out, many low-income students lack [âŚ]
June 8, 2020
Policies
Students Anxious About Health Care Coverage Due to COVID-19 Uncertainties
Many recently graduated students are contending with concerns about healthcare as the economy plunges into a recession. According to a 2017 Agile Health Insurance survey, 72% of college students and recent graduates nationwide have difficulty finding affordable healthcare coverage. Some former University of Minnesota students are now struggling even more to navigate healthcare options before [âŚ]
June 8, 2020
Other News
Emory University Weighs in on Health Consequences for Protesters
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) Emory professors broke down the tensions behind recent protest and the potential health consequences for people who participate. âAlthough COVID-19 is a major public health threat it would be disingenuous not to recognize that structural racism is also a major public health threat,â said Emory physician Dr. Jay Varkey. Read More
June 8, 2020
Nursing
University of Louisville Nursing Scholarship Created to Honor Breonna Taylor; Four-Year Renewable Award
To honor the memory of the EMT from Louisville, the University of Louisville Health Board of Directors is creating a nursing scholarship in the name of Breonna Taylor. The Breonna Taylor Memorial Scholarship Fund in Nursing will be a four-year renewable award. In choosing the recipient, preference would be granted to a Black female who [âŚ]
June 8, 2020
Policies
Senators Press Colleges on Safety for Faculty, Staff and Students Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed the president of Purdue University on Thursday for his plans to protect employees from the coronavirus pandemic even as the school trumpets its commitment to bring students back to campus for the fall. Low-wage workers, Warren said, are the ones cleaning dormitories and classrooms and providing food and other services [âŚ]
June 8, 2020
Other News
Racism Is a Public health Issue and âPolice Brutality Must Stop,â Medical Groups Say
As protests over George Floydâs death continue nationwide, several doctorsâ groups â the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and American College of Physicians â are emphasizing that racism is a public health issue and theyâre calling for police brutality to stop. The American Academy of Pediatrics posted to Twitter on Sunday night that âracism is a public [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
SUNY, Office of Mental Health Partner to Launch University Crisis Text Line
In partnership with the state Office of Mental Health, the State University of New York has launched a crisis text line and online suicide prevention training program to help New Yorkers, particularly students, confront mental health issues exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The free and confidential crisis text line can be accessed by texting Got5U to 741-741, [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
New School Furloughs Student Health Services Staff, Cutting Off Students From a Remote Medical Lifeline
Manhattanâs New School is canning most of its student health services staff to cut costs during the pandemic â right when students say they need the remote medical help the most. The private East Village institution furloughed 15 of its 19 health services staffers on May 16, including all its doctors and 2/3 of its [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
College Students Count on Their Schools for Mental-Health Help, But Now Many Canât Get It
It had been a tough five years at George Washington University, but when Hannahâs last semester arrived, so did relief. She started applying for jobs, envisioning life away from the District. The feeling didnât last. One night in March, Hannah, in Florida for a job interview, met up with friends in Fort Lauderdale, where a [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
Many Massachusetts Colleges Uncertain About Robust COVID-19 Testing on Campus
Many Massachusetts colleges are uncertain they will be able to put robust COVID-19 testing mechanisms in place on their campuses if and when they reopen for fall 2020, reported The Boston Globe. An advisory group of a dozen Massachusetts college presidents, set up by Gov. Charlie Baker, conducted a survey of nearly 90 campus leaders to ask [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
Meharry Proposes Consortium of HBCU Med Schools to Tackle COVID-19âs Uneven Toll
The president of the historically Black Meharry Medical College said on Wednesday that a consortium of the nationâs four Black medical schools would be the group best prepared to tackle the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black people and communities of color. In testimony on Wednesday, before a virtual convening of the House Ways and [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
HBCU Meharry Medical College Gets NIH Support to Advance COVID-19 Drug Development
This historically Black Meharry Medical College said on Friday that it will get vital research and technical support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance its development of a drug for patients infected with COVID-19. For Meharry, this means that MRCV-19, the compound it is developing, can sprint forward to the NIH for [âŚ]
June 1, 2020
Other News
Ohio Public Health Officials Apologized After Releasing Mask Guidance for African Americans to Avoid Wearing Face Coverings With âGang Symbolismâ
Public health officials in Franklin County, Ohio apologized last week after they released guidance on wearing face masks that targeted the African American community and urged it against wearing facial coverings that elicited âgang symbolism.â âFranklin County Public Health apologizes for a recent guidance document focused on mask coverings for African Americans,â the agency said [âŚ]
May 24, 2020
Other News
âA Dark Cloudâ: Evanston Leaders Concerned with Disproportionate Rates of Coronavirus Among Black and Latino Residents
For weeks, preliminary data showed black Americans in Illinois, among other states, were disproportionately contracting and dying from COVID-19. Not only has that trend continued in cities like Evanston, but Illinois Department of Public Health statistics show a steady increase in cases among Latino city residents as well. Black residents comprise 24.6 percent of confirmed cases, yet [âŚ]
May 24, 2020
Other News
Pandemic Underscores Need for DACA as High Court Considers Its Fate
As the nationâs doctors, nurses and other health care heroes fight a pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court grapples with a case that could remove about 27,000 health professionals from the battlefieldâincluding 200 medical students, residents and physicians. The court case began well before the global pandemic struck. Even then, the stakes were high in a [âŚ]
May 24, 2020
Other News
COVID-19 Will Intensify Education Inequities for Black Students
In the United States, data reveal that Black Americans are contracting and dying from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at rates that double, and sometimes triple their representation across various states. In Illinois, 43% of people who have died are African-American, although the race makes up only 15% of the population. In Louisiana, 70% of the [âŚ]
May 24, 2020
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