Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
― M. Scott Peck
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
New three-year quality initiative aims to eliminate rural health disparities (opens new window)
A new three-year initiative by the American Heart Association® aims to eliminate rural health disparities by helping hospitals and clinicians provide high-quality, consistent, timely and appropriate evidence-based care. Read more (opens new window)
U.S. death toll from drug overdoses is rising fast among Black and Indigenous people (opens new window)
Historic rises in drug overdose deaths are disproportionately affecting Black and Indigenous people in the United States. A new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using data from 25 states finds that fatal overdoses increased by 44% among Black people in 2020 compared with the year prior. Read more (opens new window)
The MASALA study is expanding to second gen South Asians; focus on food and cardiac risk (opens new window)
The MASALA Study is the first longitudinal study in U.S. South Asians to understand factors leading to heart disease — and ways to prevent it in this population. By 2024, the cohort (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi ancestry — the largest South Asian groups in the U.S.) will include around 2300 participants in California, Illinois, and New York, whose health will be tracked over the next several decades. Findings to date include the impact of plant-based food; and religion and spirituality on heart health, and relation of ectopic fat to cardiac health. Read more (opens new window)
2022 U.S. Monkeypox Outbreak: Situation Summary (opens new window)
CDC is tracking an outbreak of monkeypox that has spread across several countries that don’t normally report monkeypox, including the United States. The monkeypox virus is spreading mostly through close, intimate contact with someone who has monkeypox. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to MFP doctoral Fellow Dr. Griselle Estrada for the successful defense of her dissertation study, "Culture Care Values and Beliefs of Puerto Rican Adults Related to Suicide: An Ethnonursing Study" at Duquesne University School of Nursing.
Congratulations to MFP Alumna Dr. Dawn Bounds on being selected as a part of the American Academy of Nursing Class of 2022 Fellows!
About MFP
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