SPH This Week.
October 17, 2021
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ACTIVIST LAB
In a new conversation series by the Activist Lab, Craig Andrade, associate dean for practice and director of the Activist Lab, and Eric Rubenstein, assistant professor of epidemiology, discuss their shared experiences working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
RESEARCHConversations under 30 minutes between patients and their doctors in general practice settings can lead to small, beneficial reductions in alcohol consumption. |
RESEARCHOnly 15 percent of adults who became unemployed and uninsured in North Carolina during the pandemic actually enrolled in Medicaid, and the rate was highest in the most socially vulnerable counties. |
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PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Ahead of the Oct. 21 Public Health Conversation "The Next Normal: Civil Liberties and Health," the professor of law at Saint Louis University School of Law, and co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, spoke about how to improve conversations about health and racial equity.
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGEFree Associations podcast host Matthew Fox, and guest hosts Lori Dean and Dustin Duncan, discuss a study that examines how white privilege affects health. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTThree types of microaggressions negatively affected the self-rated health of Asians and Asian Americans. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Public Health Post sat down with the fellows to learn about their research and fellowship experience contributing to the commission's recent report on social determinants of health, data, and decision-making.
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Interview with Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology
WBUR
Quotes Julia Raifman, assistant professor of health law, policy & management
POLITIFACT
Quotes Wendy Mariner, emeritus professor of health law, policy & management
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