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Section: Health
Disparities
Black Doctors Push for Anti-Bias Training in Medicine to Combat Health Inequality
George Floydâs last words, âI canât breathe,â 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 [âŚ]
June 22, 2020
Disparities
Advice for Minority Students Considering Med School
According to the âDiversity in Medicineâ 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 [âŚ]
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 [âŚ]
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 agencyâs 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. [âŚ]
June 22, 2020
Health
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 agencyâs 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. [âŚ]
June 16, 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 doesnât seem to be [âŚ]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Judge Mostly Dismisses George Washington Uâs 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 [âŚ]
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 [âŚ]
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 â made even more critical by the COVID-19 pandemic â 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 worldâs largest suicide prevention and crisis [âŚ]
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 [âŚ]
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 isnât known, however, [âŚ]
June 15, 2020
Other News
College Graduates Question Universitiesâ 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 [âŚ]
June 15, 2020
Students
Universities Plan Fall Initiatives to Address Systemic Racism and Police Brutality
As protests continue across the nation after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers, universities are analyzing their own biases and implementing initiatives and conversations on campus for the fall semester to address systemic racism and police brutality.
June 12, 2020
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
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