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(RNS) — ‘We would not be where we are without your help and we won’t be able to cross the finish line without you,’ said White House official Melissa Rogers.

Image: Courtesy of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine today launched its Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized communities. Built with support from Gilead Sciences, Google.org, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the CDC Foundation, the tracker is a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across race ...

Satcher Health Leadership Institute At Morehouse School Of Medicine, With Support From Google.org And Gilead Sciences, Launches Health Equity Tracker To Study Racial Health Inequities Related To Covid-19 Today, the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine with support from Gilead Sciences, Inc. Google.org, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the CDC Foundation announced the launch of the Health Equity Tracker, a comprehensive data platform that can highlight and addres...

Julia Lashay Israel In a statement, Keller Williams explained that Julia Lashay Israel will serve as the company’s “head of inclusion and belonging” and will lead efforts to reach 10,000 agents with one or more training courses over the next year. The 90-minute courses focus “on how the brain unconsciously produces bias,” and offer an “overview of fair housing policy and on the historic practices that have contributed to the current homeownership gap for diverse groups of the U.S. p...

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news. Week in Review Highlight of the Week: This week, the Senate Finance Committee discussed making permanent COVID-19 flexibilities, including those related to telehealth. See the hearing and other news below. I.Regulations, Notices &...

By Erica Meltzer/Chalkbeat Colorado • 2 minutes ago Last week, the federal Centers for Disease Control opened vaccine eligibility to children aged 12 to 15, clearing the way for most middle and high school students to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In Telluride, public health workers ran the clinic in the gym of the intermediate school, but in the more conservative ranching community of Norwood, they had to move the clinic to the library after parents raised concerns that ch...

Still, individuals should cautiously seek trusted voices in their respective communities who only present life-saving facts. That is the message from two of the nation’s leading physicians, who are members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team. In a special live interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith and Dr. Cameron Webb extolled the importance of everyone getting fully vaccinated. They told NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. C...

UPPER MERION — Upper Merion Township will be a busy place come primary election day on May 18. Candidates are vying for their partys nomination for mayor of Bridgeport, as

email White House COVID Task Force Head Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Says Vaccinating 12-15 Year Olds Is Essential The physician who leads the Biden Harris Equity Task Force on COVID-19 says vaccinating younger people is key to fighting this pandemic. Published 1 hour ago Written by Jamila Bey The Biden-Harris Administration has been working to ensure COVID-19 vaccination access to all Americans, and just this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer vacci...

White House COVID-19 Response Team and the Black Press White House COVID-19 Response Team and the Black Press Misinformation and disinformation are the primary drivers for vaccine hesitancy in African-American and Latino neighborhoods. Still, individuals should cautiously seek trusted voices in their respective communities who only present life-saving facts. That is the message from two of the nation’s leading physicians, who are members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team. In a special...