Making an Appeal for Equity and Access During COVID-19

Join Crystal Emery and a distinguished panel of public health experts and leaders promoting racial equity on Thursday, May 7 at 7pm for a screening of The Deadliest Disease in America.

Intended to reduce systemic negligence creating barriers of access to healthcare, Producer/Director Crystal R. Emery will live-stream her documentary film, The Deadliest Disease in America on Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 7PM ET with a special film introduction by Broadcast Journalist, Soledad O’Brien followed by an interactive forum by policymakers, activists and medical professionals, in developing a strategy for change in the American healthcare.

“The multitude of inequities in our health care is an imbalance our society cannot sustain during these trying times,” explains filmmaker Crystal R. Emery.

Click here to register for this event.

101st Meeting of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research

The next open session of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) will be held virtually on May 19, 2020 from 10:00am to 1:30pm ET. The public is welcome to view the open session virtually, and registration is not required.

The session will include presentations on the National Institute of General Medicine Strategic Planning Process and Tools and the National Institute of Nursing Research Strategic Planning Process and Portfolio Analysis.

The session can be viewed here. More details can be found here.

COVID-19 Research Community Forum

Want to learn about the latest COVID-19 research happening here at home?
Meet online with researchers from the four federally-funded Clinical and Translational Science programs in Massachusetts to hear about how they’re working together to protect us from COVID-19.

They will offer a Community Forum each week for the next month so you can be part of these important conversations. After the featured presentation, they will discuss the health equity concerns raised by community constituents.

The second Community Forum is scheduled for Thursday, April 30, 4:00pm-5:00pm online via Zoom. It will be presented by Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, from the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Dr. Khvorova will present on RNA Therapeutics: Informational drugs as a Pandemic Response Tool. This talk will describe the development of siRNA-based approaches for modulation of COVID-19 in the lung in a three-month time frame.

To sign up, please fill out this form: https://tinyurl.com/yaa6dqw 

UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences: COVID-19 Town Hall and Q&A

Friday, April 24
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Registration required:
https://bit.ly/ialstownhall

Short presentations from clinical and research leaders on the current COVID-19 pandemic. There will be opportunities to have some questions addressed.

1:00–1:05pm:    Introduction to Symposium and Panelists
1:05–1:25pm:    Andrew W. Artenstein, MD, Chief Physician Executive and Chief Academic Officer Baystate Health “COVID-19 in Western MA – Current State and Next Steps”
1:25–1:30pm:   Brief Q&A period
1:30–1:45pm:   Nick Reich, Associate Professor, SPHHS, UMass Amherst “How can COVID-19 Modeling Inform Decisions”
1:45–2:00pm:   Andrew Lover, Assistant Professor, SPHHS, UMass Amherst “Serological Surveys to Assess SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Prevalence in Massachusetts using Self-Sampling”
2:00–2:15pm:   George Corey, Director, UHS, UMass Amherst “COVID-19 Virus and Antibody Testing During the Reopening of the Campus”
2:15–2:30pm:    UMass Amherst COVID-19 Response Teams (Face Shields – Meghan Huber, College of Engineering; VTM – Mike Daley, Cell Culture Facility, IALS)
2:30–3:00pm:   Q&A period
3:00pm:                CLOSE

CDC Webinar: Update for Rural Partners, Stakeholders, and Communities on COVID-19 Response

Webinar Presentation – Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00 pm ET.

Presenter: Dr. Jay Butler, Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases, CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will share guidance with partners, public health practitioners, healthcare providers, and others working to protect the health of rural communities.  To submit questions in advance, please e-mail ruralhealth@cdc.gov with “Rural Health Update 4/22” in the subject line.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_HUpRZmPETsuD9mtsDiTWHA

Baystate Health Personal Protective Equipment Donations

Due to the critical importance of safe food handling, Baystate Health may only consider donations from restaurants. Food from other sources is not accepted. All restaurant food donations must be coordinated through Catherine Smith at Baystate Health at Catherine.Smith2@baystatehealth.org. Requests will then be triaged to the appropriate location. This process helps ensure food safety guidelines are met and that the work site is prepared to receive and enjoy the delivery.

For the latest information, please visit www.baystatehealth.org/covid19.  

Covid-19 Resources

Massachusetts is updating information pertaining to COVID-19 daily here

The CDC is updating information here

Baystate Health and Cooley Dickinson Health Care have set up Covid-19 sections on their websites which include recent updates, information for the public and their most recent COVID-19 metrics.

Two community resources for people who are struggling with managing a new life situation are https://www.look4help.org/ and https://www.413cares.org/

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is providing its latest communications and a set of resources here

NINR Director’s Lecture: “At the Intersection of Self-Management and Symptom Science”

 

 

April 29, 2020
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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In this NINR Director’s Lecture, Dr. Barbara Riegel will discuss her research in self-care, which includes treatment adherence, condition monitoring, and self-management of symptoms.

Click here to register.