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/PRNewswire/ -- Catalyst CEO Champions For Change continue to advance women in their organizations at every level across the leadership pipeline, particularly...
/PRNewswire/ -- Catalyst CEO Champions For Change continue to advance women in their organizations at every level across the leadership pipeline, particularly...
A conference explores energy justice, and emerging issue in the transition to renewable energy sources. Participants in the conference “Energy Justice: Prioritizing Equity in the Greener Grid,” organized by the Center for Energy and Environmental Law at the UConn School of Law on April 16, 2021. The rapid acceleration of climate change will soon force states to collaborate to combat it, Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told a large virtual audience at a UConn Law conference on April 16, 2021. “We can no longer just put on ou...
By Brita Belli December 22, 2020 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (© stock.adobe.com) Even as the COVID-19 pandemic reaches grim new milestones, with 18 million U.S. cases and nearly 320,000 U.S. deaths as of Dec. 22, the emergence of multiple vaccines offers hope that an end to the crisis could be in sight. Two vaccines, by Pfizer and Moderna, have already received FDA authorization, with millions of doses already being delivered to locations across the country. And yet some public health experts are nervous. While B...
email article Physicians, a nurse, and a historian explored ways to minimize distrust in medicine, during a webinar hosted by the American Medical Association as part of its Prioritizing Equity series. When the vaccine became available for H1N1, Lauren Smith, MD, MPH, chief health equity and strategy officer for the CDC Foundation and a panelist in the discussion Thursday, was working at a state health department. While the department looked to ensure that all the healthcare providers took the vaccine, Smith said she was surprised by the amount of pushback it received. "There are a lot ...