♦
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
— Jesse Jackson
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
Poor housing harms health in American Indian and Alaska Native communities (opens new window)
Robbed of ancestral lands, American Indian and Alaska Native tribal communities face an unparalleled housing crisis that pleads for national housing reforms. As victims of centuries of intentional government policies to remove and reallocate lands and resources, many live in third-world conditions that have led to sky-high rates of health problems, ranging from diabetes and cardiovascular disease to chronic liver disease, obesity, unintentional injuries, substance use disorders, violence, and suicides. This paves a path to extremely high rates of disability and prematurely shortened lives. Read more (opens new window)
About 1 in 4 older Latinos, Blacks report discrimination when seeking health care (opens new window)
About a quarter of Latino and Black older adults reported facing racial discrimination at the doctor’s office, making it harder for them to receive the care they need, according to a study from the Commonwealth Fund released Thursday. Read more (opens new window)
PhenX Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Assessments Collection (opens new window)
The PhenX Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Assessments Collection, available in the PhenX Toolkit, contains 19 new protocols that expand on the previous SDOH collection to help measure upstream factors that shape behaviors and health outcomes. This collection provides a common currency for studying SDOH across public health research studies. Read more (opens new window)
The Historical Roots of Racial Disparities in American Health Care (opens new window)
A new documentary from the Smithsonian Channel, ‘The Color of Care,’ produced by Oprah Winfrey, shines a light on medicine’s biases. Read more (opens new window)
Latest COVID-19 Coverage (opens new window) - Becker's Hospital Review (opens new window) (Updated Weekly)
Becker's Healthcare has consolidated its most essential news and editorial content about COVID-19 here for readers for ease of reference. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Current National Advisory Committee Chair Dr. Eugenia Isabel Flores Millender received the prestigious invitation to speak at the White House. Read more (opens new window)
The following funding opportunities may be of interest to you:
Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:00pm/EDT
The NIH Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Scientific Interest Group (NIH AANHPI-HSIG) will host the Inaugural "Annual NIH AA and NHPI Health Research Conference" on May 4-5, 2022, to celebrate AANHPI heritage month, highlight AANHPI research achievements, and assess research needs. The main theme of 2022 conference is "Mechanism and Translational Research to Improve Health and Therapeutic Outcome for AA and NHPI Population".
Learn more and register (opens new window)
Check out season 2, episode 2 of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up!” at emfp.org/news/mental-health-trailblazers-podcast! This week, Indrias discusses community engagement in research, the impact of elder care on caregivers, and Alzheimer’s research with Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC. Dr. Bonds Johnson is currently an Assistant Professor, Tenure track at Emory University’s Nell Woodruff School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the mental health of African American individuals with dementia and their caregivers, beginning with early diagnosis and treatment.
This MFP/ANA educational offering is scheduled for July 19-20, in Washington, DC. The link to register is is forthcoming.
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.
(opens new window)
