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The Boston Congress of Public Health (BCPH) invites you to join a FREE special webinar event, “Five Loaves & Two Fish: Lessons from a Healthy Teaching Kitchen Led by a Pharmacist Culinary Chef,” set for September 11, 2024, from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST (10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST).
During this session, Dr. Mercedes Harris, a recipient of both the 2024 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst and Health Innovator to Watch Awards will discuss the work of her organization, Five Loaves & Two Fish Healthy Teaching Kitchen. She will highlight her professional journey from the United States to international community pharmacy and public health, with a focus on minority representation, cultural sensitivity, NCD prevention, and awareness. As she notes, “Amidst the peaks and valleys, having perseverance as small as a mustard seed and believing that nothing will be impossible for you.”
Mercedes Harris, PharmD, MPH is a public health pharmacist consultant with over two decades of service within community pharmacy and public health. Dr. Harris a native New Yorker (Queens), is dedicated to creating culturally sensitive programs to her ancestral ties within the Caribbean and internationally. Dr. Harris spearheaded a teaching kitchen organization with a focus on community health promotion, monitoring and literacy strategies to youth and adult populations.
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On August 8, 2024, HPHR/BCPHR released its inaugural supplement, Community-Centered Approaches to Eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 Vaccine Stigma and Discrimination, produced by George Washington University with support from Gilead Sciences. The supplement and all associated articles are available Open-Access on BCPHR.org. You can watch the webinar by clicking the image above or the button below.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare what structural racism looks like in healthcare settings, workplace practices, and living conditions that disproportionately expose Black and brown communities to unfair health outcomes. Racial scholars have urged policymakers to rightfully shift their units of analysis from personal decision-making to the structural inequities that racially and ethnically minoritized communities face. The syndemic interaction between the COVID pandemic with the ongoing HIV pandemic makes visible the role that disparate access to healthcare and the other social determinants of health has on one’s exposure. As such, Gilead Sciences Incorporated funded a national training effort called “Two in One” to equally promote HIV/PrEP screening alongside COVID-19 vaccine screenings in the same primary care setting. The Two in One Model includes primary research, evidence-informed PCP training, and policy recommendations on the screening guidelines.
Our goal for publishing with HPHR Journal is to share a collection of scholarly papers that debunk theories that maintain people as problems as opposed to the conditions they live in as this aligns with the journal’s mission to investigate biological, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of health. While this supplement focuses specifically on HIV and COVID-19 prevention, its theoretical frameworks, methods, research, and policy implications have transferability to a range of other disparate patient outcomes. These papers illustrate how prioritizing the values and realities of the most marginalized groups is a community-centered approach useful for eliminating discrimination and stigma. Read the supplement here.
Dr. Philip Alberti, PhD earned his doctoral degre in sociomedical sciences and his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Columbia University. He founded the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Center for Health Justice as the natural next step in a career focused on eliminating inequities in health and health care. He also currently serves as the AAMC’s senior director of health equity research and policy. Before this, he led health equity research and evaluation efforts alongside community partners for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and working as a graduate research assistant with Columbia and the National Center for Children in Poverty.
Dr. Patrick Corr, EdD, Med, AFAMEE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS); Vice Program Director, Integrative Medicine; and the principal investigator with the Frame-Corr Research Lab. Dr. Corr has experience in designing and leading qualitative and mixed methods health research and is currently leading a study on the role of nutrition education in outpatient oncology clinics. Dr. Corr teaches coursework in research methodology, public health, and health education. Dr. Corr’s research interests are in subjective well-being, whole-body health, and nutrition education.
Dr. Kevin Chung, MD is a PGY-3 resident in internal medicine at the GW Internal Medicine Residency Program. He studied Neuroscience at Pomona College and spent gap years working at a domestic violence shelter and addiction recovery program. He earned his MD at the University of Washington School of Medicine as part of the Community-focused Urban Scholars Program cohort. Throughout his medical training, he has been involved in anti-racism and health equity work. His clinical interests include primary care, addiction medicine, and HIV medicine. He is also a Two in One National Advisory Board member.
Dr. Krista L. Jones, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC, FAAN, is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing’s Urbana Campus. She is a board-certified Advanced Public Health Nurse and the primary investigator of Nursing Experts Translating the Evidence (NExT). She serves as Chair of the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations (CPHNO), President of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE), and Chair of the Illinois Nursing Workforce Center. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and has received grants for her work in nursing. She is a Two in One National Advisory Board member.
Dr. Maranda Ward is an Assistant Professor and Director of Equity in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is an expert in advancing anti-racism efforts within health professions education to competently promote health and racial equity in practice. As the PI of the Two in One: HIV and COVID Screening & Testing Model, she led a national research-informed educational intervention aimed at eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 vaccine stigma. She earned degrees in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College, in public health from Tulane University, and in education from The George Washington University.
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Proceeds support BCPH programs for new and emerging health leaders, which include webinars, a training academy, and Thought Fellowship.
Congratulations to the 2024 Cohort of the Thought Leadership for Public Health Fellowship:
They will be participating in a series of trainings in anticipation of building a communications platform addressing public health through the lens of equity and justice. Learn more about them here.
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We wanted to send out a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the filming of The Great Health Debates: Season 3 (GHD) this past week at New York University. We also want to congratulate Fatou Barry for her stellar performance as host.
If you missed watching the Debates, click the button below to watch recordings of the livestreams on our YouTube channel (YouTube.com/@BCPHStudio). Visit soon though – we will be taking down the links soon as we incorporate the debates into the curriculum of the forthcoming BCPH Academy.
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BCPH crystalizes its mission and vision through information dissemination via BCPH Studio and training through BCPH Academy:
Translates public health information for diverse audiences through the production and publication of blogs, vlogs, podcasts, TV series, and academic
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including HPHR Journal.
Developing intersectional social justice technical assistance and trainings, such as webinars, certificate programs, and Fellowships, to support underrepresented voices and populations in public health.
