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by Chantal Pierrat: When people we love, our communities, and the entire world are at their most vulnerable, my first impulse is to jump to “fix-it” mode.
Yet recently I have realized that this can be a diversion, a way to avoid the real work of fixing
feeling.
With the world crying out for change, it’s a time to act, to lead with our voices, but it’s also a time to follow…and to feel.
‘Feeling it’ is a critical step in the process of healing trauma, grief, anxiety, negative thinking patterns, collective anger, and other painful experiences that seem to be on rotation these days.
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health-led team has found that Hispanic, Black, and Native Americans have carried the burden of the pandemic, both in overall mortality and specifically in years of potential life lost, in an analysis of 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (D.C.).
“COVID-19 certainly didn’t cause these racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes, but it did highlight and bring unprecedented national attention to long-standing societal and health inequalities that many communities of color in the U.S. face,” said
Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean of the Fielding School and distinguished professor of biostatistics. “It is imperative that we rise to the challenge of addressing the health needs of communities of color, both during the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic and long after its conclusion.”
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Eric Tischler: Welcome to The Intersect. I m Eric Tischler. Abt Associates tackles complex challenges around the world, ranging from improving health and education to assessing the impact of environmental changes. For any given problem, we bring multiple perspectives to the table. We thought it would be enlightening, and maybe even fun, to pair up colleagues from different disciplines, so they can share their ideas and perhaps spark new thinking about how we solve these challenges.
Today, I’m joined by two of those colleagues, David Cooley and Lawrence Reichle. Lawrence was the Deputy Project Director on the Data and Technical Assistance Contractor Team to support the Health Resources and Services Administration s Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Reduce Infant Mortality. His other work at Abt includes CDC-funded studies with pregnant women and infants, assessing pregnancy infant outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 exposure.