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NIH aims to address COVID testing disparities in underserved communities NIH aims to address COVID testing disparities in underserved communities Kelsy Ketchum, 360Dx Print Not long after the start of COVID-19 pandemic, communities of color as well as underserved communities, in general, complained about their lack of access to testing. More than a year later, some diagnostic companies say they are seeing a decline in COVID-19 testing as more tests are being made available. Yet for those in neighborhoods where access to tests were limited, challenges to getting a SARS-CoV-2 test remains. To ...

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis will host a COVID-19 vaccine town hall on Monday with a slew of local and national health experts.  The event will last from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The congressman's office, in a news release, said the panel will be a "frank" discussion of vaccination efforts and the pandemic response.  The list of panelists includes: Monica Webb Hooper, Deputy Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health; James E. K. Hildreth, infectious disease expert and President of Meharry Medical College. Dr. Hildreth ...

Wed, 02/10/2021 LAWRENCE – The Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research & Treatment at the University of Kansas will kick off its spring seminar series featuring a talk on community-responsive interventions for addictive behaviors. Monica Webb Hooper from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities will offer the talk at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 19. Free registration for the virtual presentation, which will be held via Zoom, is available here. Hooper is a renowned translational behavioral scientist and clinical health psychologist. Her area of research focuses on the effect of...

Mary P Mercer: Beyond the marathon—notes from the relay of pandemic response December 10, 2020 “We’ve been sprinting a marathon,” the email read. I sighed after reading it. It was the tenth time in as many days this analogy was used to discuss the pace of response to the covid-19 pandemic. It was mid-March, and along with other disaster service workers, I had been called to contribute to the public health response in San Francisco. We were working hard and watching with dread as more regions around the world experienced medical surge. Would our actions be enough to stave off the worst...