Courtesy of Maeve Wallace
Maeve Wallace, PhD, studies maternal mortality. Specifically, she studies the violent deaths of pregnant and postpartum women. She’s known for years that guns are involved in most cases of maternal mortality. But Wallace has never been able to recommend gun-restricting policies in her federally funded research papers or request federal funding for gun violence research until now.
After a 24-year-long ban, the federal government made funds available to study gun-violence and gun-violence prevention through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“I think it’s sort of shocking to believe that it was banned for so long,” Wallace said. “If we were to really think about the magnitude of loss of life among pregnant and postpartum women in this country, we want to include homicide and suicide to really capture the magnitude of this problem.”
The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates was a big man with big responsibilities. The arrival of the novel coronavirus in Vidalia, Louisiana, was another burden on a body already breaking under the load. Bates was in his 10th year with the Vidalia Police Department, assigned as a resource officer to the upper elementary school. But with classrooms indefinitely closed, he was back on patrol duty and, like most people in those early days of the pandemic, unprotected by a mask. On Friday, March 20, he was coughing and his nose was bleeding. The next day, he couldn’t get out of bed.
Parkridge Health System Welcomes Associate Administrator Whitney Evans Snardon Monday, December 28, 2020
Whitney Evans Snardon
Parkridge Health welcomes Whitney Evans Snardon as market associate administrator and co-ethics and compliance officer. In her role, Ms. Snardon will work closely with Tom Ozburn, president and CEO of Parkridge Health, and facility leadership to catalyze growth projects throughout the system. She will support the growing neuroscience program at Parkridge Health, oversee housekeeping services, and assist with operations at Parkridge Valley Child & Adolescent and Adult & Senior campuses.
“Whitney is a tremendous addition to the Parkridge family, and her training and experience position her to make an immediate impact on our team,” Mr. Ozburn said. “We anticipate strong growth in several areas in 2021 and in the coming years, and Whitney will play a key role in strategizing and operationalizing our plans to expand key service lines.”
Meaningful Exploration & Discovery
A great university defines success by how it advances humanity through academic, scholarly and social leadership. By that standard, Tulane is truly impactful and ascendant. Tulane’s manifold contributions are evident in the lives we transform, the problems we solve and the community we foster.
IN FY20, TULANE RECEIVED MORE THAN $176 MILLION IN RESEARCH FUNDING THE HIGHEST AMOUNT IN TULANE’S HISTORY.
Health Equality
THOMAS LAVEIST, a national expert on issues related to equity and health, is dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity. He and other key researchers are currently working to launch a new Health Equity Institute, to study how health issues disproportionately impact the Black community. LaVeist is also co-chair of the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, which was tasked by Gov. John Bel Edwards to develop a series of recomme
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The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates was a big man with big responsibilities. The arrival of the novel coronavirus in Vidalia, Louisiana, was another burden on a body already breaking under the load. Bates was in his 10th year with the Vidalia Police Department, assigned as a resource officer to the upper elementary school. But with classrooms indefinitely closed, he was back on patrol duty and, like most people in those early days of the pandemic, unprotected by a mask. On Friday, March 20, he was coughing and his nose was bleeding. The next day, he couldn’t get out of bed.