December 23, 2024 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Course Objectives
This paper reports on the positive impact of COVID-19 vaccine equity outreach strategies deployed at UW Medicine in 2021. Strategic outreach to people from underrepresented groups via mobile vans, pop-up clinics, vulnerable population clinics, and automated scheduling improved the reach of vaccination over traditional scheduling. Strong community partnerships were a key ingredient of success!
This retrospective analysis was a collaboration between biomedical informatics researchers (Xie, Hartzler) and operational leaders in UW Medicine (Mah, Ruud, Chew, Lowery, Hernandez). We wish to thank Martine Pierre-Louis, Tricia Madden, Jenny Brackett, Nicholas Postiglione, Naomi Matana Shike, 10 CBOs, and countless other UW Medicine and community stakeholders in this effort.
Read the article here:
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0044-1779258
Across the country, nearly 9 million people identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, and many call the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI) region home. According to Indian Health Services, there’s a physician shortage ― a health-professional vacancy rate of 25% ― among doctors who care for this population.
The UW School of Medicine and the UW Medicine Office of Graduate Medical Education are working to improve those statistics and increase the number of physicians in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Read more about how UW School of Medicine programs are working to address the physician shortage for American Indian and Alaska Native communities: https://huddle.uwmedicine.org/expanding-care-for-american-indian-communities/
The Board of Directors of the Committee on Native American Child Health (CONACH) have appointed Jason Deen as 2024 Committee Chairperson!
The Committee on Native American Child Health (CONACH) advocates for the health and social needs of American Indian/Alaska Native children by collaborating with tribal, urban, and IHS programs, and staying updated on relevant legislation. They meet biannually to strategize and promote interdisciplinary collaboration through events like the International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health, enhancing the care and support provided to these communities.
Learn more here:
https://www.aap.org/en/community/aap-committees/committee-on-native-american-child-health/
Monnica T. Williams, Matthew D. Skinta, Jonathan W. Kanter, Renée Martin-Willett, Judy Mier-Chairez, Marlena Debreaux & Daniel C. Rosen
From BMC Psycology: Improving our understanding of microaggressions as they impact people of color may better allow for improved understanding and measurement of this important construct. Read the full article here.
https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-020-00472-8
Monnica T. Williams, Jonathan W. Kanter, Adriana Peña, Terence H.W. Ching, & Linda Oshin
From Science Direct: Research has demonstrated a connection between microaggressions and decreased mental health across racial and ethnic groups. We reported an intervention, the Racial Harmony Workshop (RHW), to reduce racial biases and microaggressions and promote interracial connection among college students. Read the full article here.
Jonathan W. Kanter, Monnica T. Williams, Adam M. Kuczynski, Mariah D. Corey, Ryan M. Parigoris, Cathea M. Carey, Katherine E. Manbeck, Elliot C. Wallace & Daniel C. Rosen
From Springer: Previous research on microaggressions has emphasized the frequency of and distress produced by microaggressions as reported by people of color. The current research supplements the existing literature by developing a self-report measure of White individuals’ microaggressive likelihood against Black people. Read the full abstract here.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-020-09298-w
Jonathan W. Kanter, Daniel C. Rosen, Katherine E. Manbeck, Heather M. L. Branstetter, Adam M. Kuczynski, Mariah D. Corey, Daniel W. M. Maitland & Monnica T. Williams
From BMC Medical Education: Racial bias in medical care is a significant public health issue, with increased focus on microaggressions and the quality of patient-provider interactions. Innovations in training interventions are needed to decrease microaggressions and improve provider communication and rapport with patients of color during medical encounters. Read the full article here.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-020-02004-9
Rhea W Boyd, Edwin G Lindo, Lachelle D Weeks, Monica R McLemore
From Health Affairs Forefront: …despite racism’s alarming impact on health and the wealth of scholarship that outlines its ill effects, preeminent scholars and the journals that publish them routinely fail to interrogate racism as a critical driver of racial health inequities. As a consequence, the bar to publish on racial health inequities has become exceedingly low. Read the full article here.
Derek Ross Soled, Avik Chatterjee, Daniele Olveczky, Edwin G Lindo
From Frontiers in Public Health: The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities has again raised the issue of what justice in healthcare looks like. Indeed, it is impossible to analyze the meaning of the word justice in the medical context without first discussing the central role of racism in the American scientific and healthcare systems. Read the full article here.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.664783/full
