I raise up my voice—not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
— Malala Yousafzai
The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
COVID-19 takes a heavy toll on women’s health (opens new window)
Disruptions to essential health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are being felt broadly. As the world marks International Women’s Day, a new World Health Organization (WHO) analysis finds that women’s health services are far from being fully restored, with 40% of African countries reporting disruptions to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services. Read more (opens new window)
The Social Component of Diabetes Health Disparities: New Directions in Analyses and Interventions Through Social Networks and Structures (opens new window)
Extensive Diabetes Health Disparities (DHD) exist in the prevalence, control, and rates of complications of type one and type two diabetes. One important and promising direction for tackling this challenge is to engage people living with diabetes, their families and communities, and other components in their social networks in and beyond clinical settings. Read more (opens new window)
Trevor Project expands digital crisis services to LGBTQ youth in Mexico (opens new window)
LGBTQ youth in Mexico will soon be able to access support from trained counselors through digital crisis services provided by The Trevor Project, an organization that runs crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ people under 25. Read more (opens new window)
The population prevalence of solitary confinement (opens new window)
Solitary confinement is a severe form of incarceration closely associated with long-lasting psychological harm and poor post-release outcomes. Estimating the population prevalence, we find that 11% of all black men in Pennsylvania, born 1986 to 1989, were incarcerated in solitary confinement by age 32. Reflecting large racial disparities, Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to current doctoral Fellow Helena Addison on recently passing her Dissertation Proposal Defense. She is officially a PhD candidate.
Helena Addison is a third-year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, in Philadelphia, PA. Her research is focused on incarceration as a social determinant of health and driver of mental health inequities.
This MFP/ANA educational offering is scheduled for July 19-20, in Washington, DC. The link to register is is forthcoming.
The MFP plays crucial roles in (a) encouraging students of all ethnic minorities to enter master’s and doctoral programs in behavioral health nursing, and (b) supporting them with fellowships during their studies. Learn more and apply at
apply.emfp.org.
About MFP
Funding for the MFP e-Newsletter was made possible (in part) by Grant Number 1H79SM080386-04 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written training materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
