Fulfilling the Promise of Patient-Centered Care: Dismantling Framings that Foster Health Disparities
Dina Refki, Rukhsana Ahmed, and Jeanette Altarriba University at Albany, State University of New York The Institute of Medicine (2001)...
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Sep 27, 2021
Fixing the Messenger, not the Message:The University of Memphis, Church Health and Tigers Athletics
Authors: Nikkino Wesson, Fedoria Rugless, Daniel Greenwood University of Memphis + Church Health In America we chase the dream that...
May 1, 2020
Addressing College Student Food Insecurity during a Pandemic
Many colleges in the United States have launched food pantries in order to combat the growing problem of food insecurity among college...
Mar 23, 2020
Resources to Help Meet Students’ Basic Needs During the Covid 19 Pandemic
During the Covid 19 pandemic, many students do not have access to safe housing or any housing at all, face job and/or income losses as...
Mar 20, 2020
A Free Web Chatbot to Keep Students Informed on Covid 19
Managing the pandemic requires providing accurate, up-to-date information that can be communicated in real time. And the ability to ask...
Jun 23, 2017
Urban Universities for HEALTH: Collaborating to Advance Health Equity
Not all Americans have the same opportunities to live in good health. Evidence shows that individuals identifying as minorities suffer...
Jun 2, 2017
Web-Based Toolkit Helps Universities Advance Community Health Equity
More than 60 million Americans live in areas without enough health care providers to meet demand – primarily in minority and low-income...
Feb 24, 2017
Accessible, Affordable, Attainable: Reinventing Curriculum Delivery in Health Care Education
Adult college students who have made significant progress in their careers don’t have time to go back and start all over from the...
Nov 18, 2016
“An Unstoppable Force for Good”
“If you want to build a world class city, build a great university and wait 200 years.” University of Texas at Austin President Gregory...
Sep 16, 2016
3 Wins for Students, Communities, and Public Health
One of the first things students ask when they walk into my office is: “What can I do with a kinesiology major?” When I flip the question...
Sep 2, 2016
Nursing Schools Now Have One Big Toolkit for Improving Admissions
About a year ago, a dean of nursing contacted us with this question: “Your report on holistic admissions in the health professions was...
Aug 12, 2016
OPINION: A Medical Student’s Perspective on Holistic Review
As the healthcare landscape in America continues to change after the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, we are seeing an even more...
Jul 29, 2016
Building a More Diverse Biomedical Research Workforce
“There just aren’t enough minority scholars in the STEM pipeline.” “Underrepresented students get so many scholarship offers, there’s no...
May 11, 2015
New evidence suggests faculty cluster hiring can improve diversity, campus climate
The USU convened an advisory group of provosts and other experts on faculty hiring to conduct a qualitative research study. Now, after...
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