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The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
Maryland does not display Native American COVID-19 data (opens new window)
Lumped into the “Other” racial and ethnic category, American Indians and Alaska Natives are effectively invisible on Maryland’s state website for COVID-19. More than 120,000 people who identify as Native American live in Maryland, but without public-facing numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, it is a mystery how many the disease has affected -- and how many resources should be allocated to help them. Read more (opens new window)
Latino ‘Excess Deaths’ Far Exceed Initial Estimates during COVID-19 Pandemic (opens new window)
Annually, CDC researchers compile and analyze data to predict the number of deaths that will occur in the coming year. The number of mortalities that go over this initial estimate, or “the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods,” are known as excess deaths. Read more (opens new window)
Opinion: Racial disparities may be emerging in breakthrough infections. We must track them better (opens new window)
The pandemic has repeatedly exposed the role of structural racism in driving troubling racial health inequities in the United States. Black, Latino and Indigenous Americans have been more likely than their White and Asian counterparts to be exposed to covid-19, to face obstacles to accessing testing or vaccines, and to get sick and die from the disease. Read more (opens new window)
Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations Race/Ethnicity (opens new window)
The CDC reports demographic characteristics, including race/ethnicity, of people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at the national level. As of June 07, 2021, CDC reported that race/ethnicity was known for 57% of people who had received at least one dose of r (opens new window)ead more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to Dr. Kalisha Bonds Jonhson on the recent funding of her K23 award by the National Institute on Aging Division of Behavioral and Social Research. View her MFP profile
here (opens new window)Applications are open for all American Psychological Association (APA) MFP fellowships, including the
Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program (IMFP)
nursing discipline at ANA! The deadline to apply is January 15, 2022. Click
here (opens new window)to learn more and to apply.
Efforts to establish the science of social statistics preoccupied itself with developing methods to situate race variables as causes of social inequality. Read more and
register here (opens new window)In a burning world, our first impulse might be to turn away from it all. However, turning away won’t create a more equitable and exquisite earth. So, what now?
Register here (opens new window)The NIH Common Fund Wants to Hear from You! The listening session series is an opportunity to gather members from various stakeholder groups and allow them to express their view, share ideas, and provide insight about health disparities research to advance health equity.
Learn more (opens new window)The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing is requesting nurse's participation in a survey on Racism in Nursing in the Workplace. Responses are confidential.
Click here (opens new window) to learn more and to complete survey.
About MFP
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