Brian Shim discusses policy approaches to improve national lung cancer screening
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Advocating for Policy that Supports Lung Cancer Screening Today on Screen the Lungs!, we will brainstorm some of the policy approaches that cancer care and health equity advocates can adopt to bolster high-level federal support of lung cancer screening programs. We Need to Make Lung Cancer Screening Coverage Mandatory! […]
Brian Shim and Dr. Candice Carpenter discuss the role of trust and racism in oncology
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Trust and Mistrust – the role of implicit bias and discrimination in medicine and cancer care Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we discussed the multi-level barriers to Lung Cancer Screening (LCS), as well as some of the challenges at the patient-to-provider level that can marginalize patients. One particularly pressing […]
Brian Shim discusses patient navigation in lung cancer screening
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Patient Navigation – Drawing the map to better cancer care Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we discussed some of the challenges and barriers that cancer patients face in deciding whether lung cancer screening is right for them. In today’s discussion, I want to talk more about how we […]
Brian Shim discusses the decision to screen for lung cancer
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Making the Decision to Screen: How can we make things easier for patients? Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we introduced some of the salient barriers that challenge lung cancer screening at the systems, provider, and patient levels. In this blog, I will discuss some of the challenges that patients […]
Rasha Kaloti Highlights the Story of a Gender-based Violence (GBV) Survivor from Palestine
A story of a Gender-based Violence (GBV) survivor from Palestine, how she was supported, and was able to shift her life path
Dr. Quinn M. Gentry discusses strategies for engaging women to address unique experiences in advancing black feminism in public health
Dr. Quinn discusses advancing black feminism in public health
Dr. Quinn M. Gentry discusses race, class, and gender as equally oppressive inequities in advancing black feminism in public health
Dr. Quinn discusses 10 key principles aimed at advancing black feminism in public health.
Rasha Kaloti Discusses Mental Health for Health Workers in Syria: A Critical yet Forgotten Issue. A Conversation with Diana Rayes, MHS
A conversation with Diana Rayes, a PhD student in international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg of Public Health, to discuss mental health of health workers in Syria.
Contributions of Digital startups to Healthcare access in Nigeria
On today’s episode of the ‘‘Without Health we have nothing’’ series with HPHR Fellow Gabriel Oke, Dr Laz Ude Eze the Founder of TalkHealthNaija describes the contributions of digital startups to healthcare in Nigeria. He also describes what can be done differently in the digital space to improve healthcare in the country.
Randevyn Pierre discusses “Black Healthcare Stigma and Its Impact: Fowlkes’ 40-Year Fight for Health Equity in HIV”
“Imagine working in an office where you know that everyone who comes through the doors is gonna die.
I remember telling one of my clients who was dying that I didn’t know if I could continue doing the work anymore, because I wasn’t making a difference and I couldn’t keep watching people die.
He told me I had an obligation to help everyone I saw, even if I only saved one life in all the time I worked in HIV/AIDS. That was over 30 years ago.” – Earl Fowlkes
