Emory University is one of 13 organizations that has joined the partner network as an inaugural group.
“We recognize that historically male-dominated and hierarchical environments such as academia, including medicine, can be fertile ground for sexual harassing behaviors,” says Carolyn Meltzer, MD, who is the chief diversity and inclusion officer at Emory’s School of Medicine and the university’s representative in the partner network. “My colleagues and I at Emory look forward to continuing our work on mitigating systemic gender bias and inequity as a member institution of the partner network, and filtering those efforts to a local level in Atlanta.”
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Five cancer research institutes have received a $250 million donation to pool their efforts to fight the most difficult cancers. The gift from the family of William Hunter Goodwin III, who died of cancer a year ago at age 51, will bankroll the Break Through Cancer Foundation, which will include teams from Johns Hopkins, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The foundation aims to raise another $250 million to target pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, glioblastoma, and acute myelogenous leukemia. The Goodwin family owns a real-estate development company in Richmond, Va. (Cancer Letter)
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Unless an extension is granted or the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) is withdrawn, covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) have until late March to submit comments on possible revisions to the privacy rule. The day after President Biden was sworn in and six weeks after it was first announced,
[1] the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published the NPRM officials posted in December.
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A political appointee, OCR Director Roger Severino had already resigned by the time the NPRM was published, and it was a busy week before he left on Jan. 15. A flurry of other regulatory actions occurred following his departure all of which are now subject to possible revision and withdrawal by the Biden administration. Not likely to be reviewed, however, are two new enforcement resolutions issued last month, including a $5.1 million settlement with a health plan in New York for a 2015 breach affecting 9.3 million individuals.
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Break Through Cancer launches collaborative model with MD Anderson, top U.S. research institutions
Break Through Cancer today announced its formal launch as a public foundation designed to find new solutions to the most intractable challenges in cancer. The foundation is being launched with an extraordinary challenge pledge of $250 million from Mr. and Mrs. William H. Goodwin, Jr. and their family, and the estate of William Hunter Goodwin III. This represents one of the largest gifts ever in support of cancer research.
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will join collaborative teams funded and supported by Break Through Cancer along with other top cancer centers – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Tyler Jacks, Ph.D., the David H. Koch Professor of Biology and Founding Director