😅Check out my strength class at the Malden Senior Center! These rockstars, ages 65-95 prove that age is just a number when it comes to having fun and staying strong.
Join Doctors for America in Silver Spring, Maryland June 6-8, 2024 for our biennial National Leadership Conference. This year's theme is “Reclaiming the Voice of Medicine.” Confirmed speakers include: Bernie Sanders, Vivek Murthy, Kavita Patel, Ellana Stinson, Cedric Dark, Alister Martin, and more!
In Ohio, Black mothers are five times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than other mothers.
We have to listen to Black women and improve maternal health care so that every Black mother receives the care she deserves. #BlackMaternalHealth#HealthEquity
📢 Funding opportunity:
The Dept. of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health has a funding opportunity for Community Level Innovations for Improving Health Outcomes
📢 Funding opportunity:
The Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the Univ of MN is awarding grants of up to $72,000 to early & mid-career scholars committed to developing novel measures and approaches to studying the impact of structural racism on population health. https://carhe.umn.edu/our-work/ignite-spark-scholars-program
📣 Opportunity:
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is inviting applications for their Health Disparities Research Institute.
For MLK day here in the US, I'm going to be doing some equity #mapping work with #OpenStreetMap#OpenTripPlanner#QGIS and mabe some #Nodejs and posting some updates throughout the day in this thread. If that's your jam, follow along.
Otherwise, you may want to mute me for 24 hours, because this may get noisy. 🧵
@crankylinuxuser Here's a map comparing the 15-minute walk to the grocery from "legally allowed" locations (reddish) vs locations accessible by walking along a sidewalk, trail, bike facilities or residential road (greenish). Will I be comparing this contrast to at least one other Kroger location in town? You betcha. #Mapping#TranspoEquity#HealthEquity#OpenStreetMap#Valhalla#QGIS
Laws that prevent discrimination related to sexual orientation can play an important role in improving maternal health among White women in general and Black lesbian and bisexual women in particular.
For transgender women of color legal gender affirmation–changing one's name and gender marker on official documents–can lessen economic vulnerability and overrepresentation in the criminal justice system by improving access to employment, housing, education, health care, and social services. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037008
☄️The POWER of fun group exercise to combat isolation, better health and foster community.
😅 65-93 year young rockSTARs in my strength class at the Malden Senior Center are proving that age is just a number when it comes to having fun and staying strong.