First Upstate Poster Competition at CMC considered a success | |
On Dec. 2, the Cayuga Medical Center (CMC) Internal Medicine Residency program, with co-sponsorship from the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Rural Health Equity Training Collaborative (RHETC), hosted an Upstate New York Poster Competition for the first time.
Participants and judges were greeted from training programs across New York state, including Rochester General, Rochester Regional, UHS Binghamton, Unity and Arnot, as well as SUNY Upstate and the University of Buffalo. The event was held at CMC.
Dr. Jamila Michener, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, served as the keynote speaker. Through a look into recent qualitative research and an engaging conversation, Michener outlined the importance of centering the voices of people with lived experiences to improve policies and transform how we practice health care for the better.
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Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship
The Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship under the Weill Cornell Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine, in collaboration with CUNY-Hunter College, is uniquely designed to deepen trainees’ understanding of health care, local and international healthcare delivery systems, epidemiology of disease, and interventions to improve health outcomes. We offer four focus areas:
- Primary Care
- Health System Redesign
- Community-Partnered Research
- Global Health
We offer a two to three-year fellowship duration, depending on prior training and experience. Eligible applicants have MD, DO, DNP, PsyD, PharmD, MBBS, MB ChB, or PhD with a strong commitment to pursuing independent research careers. Clinicians must have completed clinical training. Physician fellows will supplement their research training with up to 20% of their time devoted to clinical practice in inpatient or outpatient internal medicine. Training in academic skills including leadership and mentoring is also provided. Applicants with prior research experience or with a Master's or PhD in addition to their clinical degree are encouraged to apply; the program can be adapted to provide them with more advanced training. U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents only. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application Requirements:
- Personal statement outlining your research interest, experience, and career goals and objectives
- Curriculum Vitae
- Letters of recommendation
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Online application form
Rolling admission; early applications are strongly encouraged. Applications will be reviewed once all required materials have been uploaded to the online application. For more information, visit the website!
Please share with individuals who may find this opportunity of interest!
This program is supported by T32HP42021 (M. Safford, PI) from HRSA and
the Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program (E. Abramson and M. Safford, MPIs) from New York State.
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National Health Outreach Conference
Cooperative Extension is accepting proposals to present at the National Health Outreach Conference, May 22-24, 2023, hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Interested individuals may submit proposals for concurrent sessions of 60 or 20 minutes in length as well as poster presentations that will be staffed at a designated time. The central theme of the conference is ensuring that all people have a fair and just opportunity to experience lifelong health and well-being. We welcome proposals addressing topics such as health equity, community engagement, data utilization, place-based interventions, environmental health, financial dimensions of health, housing, health systems and services, immunizations, food systems transformation, social determinants of health, racism as a public health issue, coalition development, global health issues, well-being, restoring confidence in science, and positive youth development as a health strategy.
Proposals will be reviewed and scored using the following criteria:
- Clarity of the proposal
- Anchored in current research or relevant theory
- Adequate description of the project or program
- Produces measurable results for communities or individuals
- Engagement of partners
- Relevance to Extension practice
Presentation proposals must be submitted through the submission portal located at https://bit.ly/NHOCproposal2023 no later than January 12, 2023.
Please share this announcement widely.
Roger Rennekamp, Ph.D.
Extension Health Director
Cooperative Extension/ECOP
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Office Location: 1220 L Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005
Mobile 541-740-5327
rogerrennekamp@extension.org
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Racist Doctors and Organ Thieves: Why So Many Black People Distrust the Health Care System | RICHMOND, VA - One Friday in 1968, a 54-year-old Black laborer named Bruce Tucker fell off a brick ledge, suffering what would prove to be a fatal head injury. The next afternoon, May 25, his heart was sewn into the chest of a white business executive named Joseph Klett, also 54, at the Medical College of Virginia. | | | |
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Stipend Supported Summer Health Equity Research Experience
The Weill Cornell Medicine Career Advancement for Research in Health Equity (CARE T37) program provides eligible post docs, medical and graduate students, residents, and fellows exposure to health equity and global health research. Research experiences are tailored to individual interests and may include:
- Intensive didactic summer program that provides an introduction to healthcare/scientific research fundamentals.
- Engaging in a mentored health equity or global health research project.
Financial support is provided for the 10 week research experience as well as support for scientific conference travel.
Post docs, medical and graduate students, residents, and fellows from underrepresented populations
(individuals from African American, Hispanic, Native/American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Island populations, individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, and those with disabilities) are encouraged to apply. Eligible candidates must be:
- A citizen or a noncitizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment.
- An under-represented minority in medicine (URiM), or from underrepresented populations, and/or have a strong and demonstrated academic interest in health equity/disparities focused research.
- Not currently participating in any NIH funded training program such as T32
Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2023!
For more information and instructions for application submission please visit our website or contact:
Robin Andrews Program Manager
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research rra2004@med.cornell.edu
Heather Johnson
Director, Operations Department of Medicine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center 270-05 76th Avenue
New Hyde Parke, NY 11040 hjohnson6@northwell.edu
The Weill Cornell Medicine Career Advancement for Research in Health Equity (CARE T37) program is made possible (in part) by 1T37MD014220 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Who are the researchers in tobacco control with the 100 highest lifetime citation c-scores? | |
The scientific impact scholar maven John Ioannidis and his team from Stanford University have recently published an update (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), "September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", Mendeley Data, V5, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.5) of their 2019 massive ranking of the world's most-cited authors across all scientific fields.
In their 2019 paper, the Ioannidis group used Scopus to analyze the output and citations of authors in 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. They looked at citation data during the years Jan 1996-Dec 31 2017 for 6,880,389 authors, being the number who had published at least 5 papers. They presented rankings for the top 100,000 authors (in fact 105,026 were listed), some 1.45% of all who had published 5 or more papers across their career. Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Niederdeppe, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, who is featured on the list.
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WCNY Behind the Woman | WCNY | “Behind the Woman” shares personal stories from diverse women leaders, in order to empower other women to pursue their goals and dreams. In season three, we’ll travel around Central New York with host and creator of “Behind the Woman,” Dr. Juhanna Rogers, as she highlights the inspiring work being done by diverse women leaders in our community. We’ll also explore who each woman is behind their title and learn more about the challenges they have faced in our community; this episode features Dr. Jamila Michener (Season 3, Episode 7). | | | |
Health Policy Series: Transformative Public Engagement: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Promise | Keynote by Dr. Jamila Michener - Matters of Engagement podcast | On September 22, 2022, the Public Engagement in Health Policy project team at McMaster University hosted a one-day conference, Reimagining public engagement in a changing world. Community members, engagement practitioners, researchers, and policymakers gathered virtually and in person to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of public engagement and to envision a way forward. | | | |
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Friday, January 6, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
REGISTER HERE
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TALK TITLE:
"Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Equity"
TALK ABSTRACT:
Suicide is a significant public health concern and the second leading cause of death among individuals aged 10 to 34. Suicide rates have increased, especially among racial/ethnic minorities, males, adolescents, sexual and gender minorities, and those with low socioeconomic status. Prior studies, including my own, identified Social Determinants of Health (SDoH, e.g., widening inequality, structural bias, and discrimination) as contributing factors to disparate risks of suicide among marginalized populations. Focusing on SDoH can help clinical practitioners, public health professionals, and policymakers design and implement tailored programs for suicide interventions and prevention. In this talk, I will start by highlighting important epidemiological trend studies on health disparities and suicide. I will call for integrating the SDoH framework into studying and addressing mental health equity. Using examples of evidence based on population-based studies and electronic health records, I will introduce different methods to measure, study and improve our understanding of SDoH.
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SPEAKERS:
Dr. Yunyu Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Informatics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC). Her research leverages large, longitudinal, nationally representative, complex population-based, and electronic health records datasets to understand racial/ethnic, sex, gender, socioeconomic, and other disparities in suicide and mental health, taking a life-course and multilevel perspective to explore structural, social, and individual-level factors to reduce suicide and mental health. Then, this understanding informs social/behavioral and policy interventions to reduce disparities and improve health equity. She is leading two projects that use existing data to study social determinants of health and resilience factors relevant to mental health (broadly) and suicide (specifically) among health disparity populations. Her work has been published in top-ranked journals (e.g., JAMA Psychiatry, JAMA Network Open, Pediatrics, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Affective Disorders). She is a recipient of seed funds from the Bill & Gates Foundation, Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorders, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH), National Institute for Health Care Management, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Racial Justice Research Fund, Center for Social Health & Wellbeing, and an NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award in Public Health (1 awardee per year). She received her MPhil in social work and social administration from the University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. in social work from New York University.
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Please join us on January 18, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST for "Infant Mortality, Race, and the American Roots of a Health Inequality"
Dr. Wangui Muigai will chart the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials, her presentation will examine the role of changing medical theories, Black activism, and public health initiatives to identify and prevent the causes of infant death in Black communities. Dr. Muigai will consider the legacy of these early campaigns in ongoing, contemporary efforts to improve Black health and birth outcomes.
As always, the Heberden Society is free and open to all. This is a hybrid lecture- virtual attendance for the general public is available here, while members of Weill Cornell Medicine are encouraged to join us in A-126 (1300 York Avenue).
You can find more information about Dr. Muigai's Heberden Society lecture in the attached flyer. And thanks to Arlene and the New York Academy of Medicine for their partnership in this lecture!
Nicole Milano
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Head, Medical Center Archives
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center
1300 York Avenue, Box 34
New York, NY 10065
T: 212-746-6072
njm4001@med.cornell.edu
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