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Mental health professionals also need healing Updated: Updated: May 18, 2021 13:20 IST Peer support is helping mental health professionals grapple with personal loss, even as they work to guide the rest of the country through its grief Share Article Peer support for mental health professionals has gone online   | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Peer support is helping mental health professionals grapple with personal loss, even as they work to guide the rest of the country through its ...

Society selects students for their outstanding scholarly achievement and commitment to advocacy and to fostering diversity By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published May 14, 2021 Five Johns Hopkins graduate students have been selected to join the universitys chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. The Bouchet...

Speakers advise graduate students to embrace the uncertainty Two graduate commencement ceremonies took place at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday. Photo: TJ Lievonen/University of Miami By Janette Neuwahl Tannen and Barbara Gutierrez 05-13-2021 Photo: TJ Lievonen/University of Miami Speakers advise graduate students to embrace the uncertainty By Janette Neuwahl Tannen and Barbara Gutierrez 05-13-2021 Thursday’s graduate commencement ceremonies featured speakers who recognized the p...

Human development May 13, 2021 There is now a well-established critique that GDP alone does not capture human welfare quite well on its own. There is a need for a broader canvas to convey the meaning of people-centred development. Thanks to renowned Pakistani economist Dr Mahbub-ul-Haq, we have been seeing the UNDP Human Development Reports since 1990 based on the Human Development Index that ranks countries in the world on the basis of their performance on social indicators. Dr Hafiz Pasha w...

Police violence and racism in general can be insidious threats to a Black womans reproductive health, damaging her own well-being and possibly even the DNA of her children, growing research shows. Transgenerational trauma – defined as trauma that passes through generations – has long been documented in descendants of enslaved people, refugees and Holocaust survivors.  In the case of Black women who have witnessed the countless deaths and injuries of Black people at the hands of pol...

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AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021  Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php     "The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already disadvantaged by race, class, gender, o...

University announces controversial restructuring plan Home » Administration » University announces controversial restructuring plan The Provost announced a plan to restructure the University’s schools and colleges, titled “seeds of innovation,” via an email to students on April 23 in a bid to reduce administration costs. The controversial restructure is one of the first implementation steps for the “Harvest Our Treasures” strategic plan, and would affect seven colleges ...

Newswise — Boston – Pregnant women with symptomatic COVID-19 have a higher risk of intensive care unit admissions, mechanical ventilation and death compared to non-pregnant reproductive age women. Increases in preterm birth and still birth have also been observed in pregnancies complicated by the viral infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that people who are pregnant may choose to be vaccinated at their own discretion with their healthcare provider. Ho...

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