Congratulations! #Nepal 🇳🇵 has eliminated #rubella as a public health problem, becoming the sixth country in @WHOSEARO to do so.
This success reflects the commitment & efforts of leaders, health workers, volunteers & community members to ensure a healthy start for babies & a future free of rubella. 🔗https://t.co/IDKM5WOOXl
📣 CHWs & health educators working with Somali or Oromo communities in MN:
We're developing a cancer prevention training with CHWs for CHWs:
🎤 60min interview
💳 $75 gc
🧠 Your input directly shapes the final training
📩 [email protected]#CHW#SomaliHealth#OromoHealth
As a former member of the MII lab and working with undergrad and postdoc mentors with similar visions, I feel lucky to be able to pay forward their effort and dedication to forge a similar experience for the trainees I work with.
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New open access pub out! We used mixed methods to compare and contrast adolescents’ and researchers’ observations of neighborhood environmental features. https://t.co/bLh2BQNOGY
Students citing newly published "seminal theories" related to race-based trauma that don't actually cite seminal theory is why we need instructors trained and grounded in this area.
On our cover this week ⬇
A Viewpoint on the need for pragmatic, affordable, and practice-changing real-life clinical trials in #oncology: https://t.co/1UQSXT6VEw
Full issue in thread 🧵
Sitting on my first selection committee reminds me of Meehl's position on case conceptualization... arguing for a comprehensive approach, merging both quantitative metrics and qualitative depth
Daughter coming home saying, "Speak my language," and "I'm Japanese" (she is not...) immediately turned our family talks about racial socialization and identity from theory to urgent reality. the tough part is teaching Sellers' model to a toddler...
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The School of Public Health Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and @UMNCancer are jointly recruiting a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of cancer epidemiology. Interested applicants can learn more and apply at: https://t.co/HNI85HFZ6J
#epitwitter
In an effort to address health disparities, #UMNCancer researcher Ivan Wu and U of M assistant professor Abdifatah Ali are working to help educate people in the East African community about cancer. They caught up with @MPRnews to talk through the details: https://t.co/CMRZIuDoQD.
An important new @JAMA_current study estimates the economic burden of health inequities for racial/ethnic minority populations to be $421-$451 billion, and for education-related inequities, nearly *$1 trillion*
https://t.co/Rug9barJX8
Introducing our next ESI program award winner: @IvanHWu from
@PublicHealthUMN who does important work on the mechanisms underlying social determinants of minority-related #stress, behaviors, and health. Learn more about this up & coming researcher here: https://t.co/2EeBZL8mJH