PHE - Resources

"We are working alongside our partners to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 through immediate relief, capacity building, and longer-term efforts to support resiliency and recovery, especially among marginalized communities most disproportionately impacted."

"Alzheimer's Advocate, Family Caregiver, and Health Policy/Delivery/Research/Technology Thought Leader"

"For the more than seven million people in California's Bay Area living through historic wildfires, it's been hard to breathe for the past month. For 29 days the region has been under a "Spare the Air" alert, which means inhaling outdoor air presents a health hazard. Air quality is even worse in Oregon and Washington, and by this morning smoke had stretched all the way to the East Coast and even to Europe. Wildfire smoke contains a variety of gases and particles from the materials that fuel the fire, including ozone, carbon monoxide, polycyclic aromatic compounds, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter-pollutants linked to respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, according to a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association."

"Build a Personal Care Community Livpact helps you organize and connect family, friends, professional support, community services and helpful resources."

"About AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association ® Discovering Health Insights. Accelerating Healthcare Transformation. AMIA ® (American Medical Informatics Association ®) is a community committed to the vision of a world where informatics transforms people's care. Over the last 35 years, the use of informatics has grown exponentially to improve health and to make better healthcare decisions. Today, informatics is the key to accelerating the current goals of healthcare reform. Every day millions of people benefit from informaticians' ability to accelerate healthcare's transformation by collecting, analyzing and applying data directly to care decisions. Data produced throughout health and healthcare is the driving force of informatics and its ability to innovate critical advancements that directly benefit people. AMIA's members are critical to discovering these insights, which is why AMIA is committed to being the professional home for the informaticians of today and the driver of informatics' future."

"AMIA 2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM The Annual Symposium builds on more than 40 years of sharing pioneering research and insights for leveraging information to improve human health. Topics of interest span the spectrum from deciphering the underpinning phenomena of disease, to managing information and communications for improving patient care, to tracking the health of populations. The AMIA 2020 Annual Symposium showcases the latest innovations from the community of biomedical informatics researchers and practitioners. The AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium brings together informatics professionals from diverse backgrounds committed to transforming health through informatics. From the leading experts in the field, to the students eager to get started, the AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium provides an opportunity to learn and to grow professionally, to network, and to flesh out ideas with colleagues and start new collaborations."

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Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "The ideas captured on this website, very much a work in progress, have been developed to support White people to act for racial justice. It draws from ideas and resources developed mostly by Black, Brown and People of Color, and has been edited by Black, Brown, and People of Color.  I recognize that categorizing actions under the labels of Actor, Ally, and Accomplice is an oversimplification, but hopefully this chart challenges all of us White folks to go outside of our comfort zones, take some bigger risks, and make some more significant sacrifices because this is what we've been asked to do by those most impacted by racism, colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, xenophobia, and hyper-capitalism. I believe that for real change to occur, we must confront and challenge all people, policies, systems, etc., that maintain privileges and power for White people."

"39 health systems in 45 states and Washington, DC have committed to addressing racism and the public health disparities caused by racism."

Kimberle Crenshaw

"Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice."

"The current debate over intersectionality is really three debates: one based on what academics like Crenshaw actually mean by the term, one based on how activists seeking to eliminate disparities between groups have interpreted the term, and a third on how some conservatives are responding to its use by those activists."

"Why This Area of the Body is the #1 Predictor for Increased Musculoskeletal Disorders and What To Do About It Description Who: Anyone interested in learning about how to take control over your own health OR help employees take control over their health What: 20 Minute Training from Movement Rx with 10 minutes for Q&A When: Thursday, 9/24 at 11:00am PST Where: Webinar Training"

This time is impossible for us, but I've registered and will get a video. I'll let you know if it's worth watching. Still a very clever angle for building a zoom telemed program.

"I hear the term synchronous learning in education a lot to refer to Zoom calls where the teacher is on with a class of students and they're learning live. But synchronous might not be so synchronous after all?"

Entertaining video. Terrific list of resources in the comments area.

Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "This is a part of Resource Generation's It Starts Today! campaign, moving $1,000,000 to Black-Led, Black Liberation Organizing between the day Michael Brown was killed and what would have been his 19th birthday - May 20th, 2015. We aim to support organizing that confronts and dismantles anti-Black violence, whether committed by private citizens or by law enforcement, throughout the US. Resource Generation is a national membership organization organizing young people with wealth toward the equitable distribution of land, wealth and power. Learn more about Resource Generation and learn how to become a member by visiting www.resourcegeneration.org."

Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "SURJ ASKS EVERY DONOR TO MAKE A MATCHING GIFT TO A BLACK-LED RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION You may know a local organization you want to support, which we fully support.  This list was compiled by leadership from the Movement for Black Lives.  We encourage you to give to one or more of the organizations below:"

"The coronavirus is killing Hispanic, Black and American Indian children at much higher numbers than their White peers, according to federal statistics released Tuesday."