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LGBTQ+ mental health

…right now except to tell you, briefly, that we will hear first from Dr. John Pachankis, who is associate professor of public health and psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and director of Yale’s LGBTQ mental health initiative. His research focuses on the search for effective mental health treatments for LGBTQ people and, importantly, the…

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The mental health toll of COVID-19

…focus – this webinar’s on mental health; mental health really is the basis of health across the life course. And we really need to end this – the way we think about mental health as sort of separate from physical health – somehow our brain is separate from our body – because it really is…

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The pandemic’s impacts on U.S. hospitals

…how the mental health and well-being of health care workers have been impacted by the ongoing public health crisis. Three scientific experts briefed reporters, and then took questions on the record. Journalists: video free for use in your stories [0:00:23] RICK WEISS: Hello, everyone. Welcome to SciLine’s media briefing on the pandemic’s impact on U.S….

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Structural racism and health in Black communities

…care within a public health framework, illustrate just two of the many ways racism operates in health care, and I’ll conclude by citing two recent studies and three resources that I think offer solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, so this schematic situates the health care system within a public health framework….

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High heat and health

…what we know about the impacts of extreme heat on children and what parents and communities can do to keep children safe. And then Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma, an assistant professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, will explain what we know about the health impacts, particularly mental health impacts of exposure to extreme heat…

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Xenophobia, racism, and health in immigrant communities

…University whose research on population health has focused on Latinx and immigrant populations. Next, we will hear from Dr. Gilbert Gee, who is a professor in the department of community health sciences at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. His research focuses on the social determinants of health inequities in minority populations. And he’ll focus…

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COVID-19: health disparities and vulnerable populations

…changing correctional culture from a public health perspective. She will talk about COVID-19’s particular impacts on incarcerated people, a largely invisible but very large group of chronically underserved individuals. Dr. Carrie Henning-Smith will speak third. She’s an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and deputy director of the University of…

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Covering COVID-19

…public health system of the United States is a partnership between the federal, state and local governmental entities, primarily. There is certainly a nongovernmental public health piece out here, like organizations like the American Public Health Association. There’s a state health officers and local health officers association. And all of us in many ways work…

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Monkeypox update

…to work hourly or as contractors for the health departments. And we even had different organizations send volunteers. Public health programs or public health schools—they sent individuals to the local health department to serve as volunteer contact tracers. And what you’re seeing now in this report that just came out is that now that the…

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Xenophobia, racism, and health in immigrant communities

COVID-19: health disparities and vulnerable populations

Covering COVID-19

Monkeypox update