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Lamar Soutter Library contract as NIH regional medical library renewed for fifth time
New England region expanded to include New York By Colleen Locke April 06, 2021
For the fifth consecutive time, the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine has selected the Lamar Soutter Library to serve as a regional medical library for an area that now includes New York as well as New England. The library will receive $8.3 million to increase awareness, facilitate access and provide training on NLM programs and services to double the number of health professionals and consumers served by previous contracts.
In its role as a National Institutes of Health regional medical library, the Lamar Soutter Library held a symposium on graphic medicine, the use of comics to tell personal stories of illness and health.
Women s History Month event: Stella Safo on women leading health equity advocacy umassmed.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from umassmed.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Women’s History Month event: Stella Safo on women leading health equity advocacy
UMass Medical School Communications February 24, 2021
UMass Medical School will observe Women’s History Month with a virtual event featuring physician and health equity advocate Stella A. Safo, MD, MPH. Dr. Safo, will present “Let Women Lead: Using Civic Engagement and Advocacy to Address Health Inequities” via a Zoom on Tuesday, March 2, from noon to 1 p.m.
Stella A. Safo, MD, MPH
Safo, assistant clinical professor of medicine, infectious diseases and medical education at Mount Sinai Health System, is a primary care physician focused on treating patients with HIV. She brings extensive experience in clinical transformation and health care redesign to her advocacy for health equity. A native of Ghana, she co-founded VoteHealth 2020 to increase voter registration and turnout among health care providers, patients, peers and communities.
Researchers to study health care providers’ influence on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance
Follow-up survey aims to alleviate widespread vaccine hesitancy found in earlier research By Susan E.W. Spencer enero 07, 2021
Now that two COVID-19 vaccines have received Food and Drug Administration emergency authorization, with more on the way, how do we encourage widespread acceptance among the public?
Two UMass Medical School researchers who surveyed Americans about their attitudes toward a COVID-19 vaccine last spring are preparing another study to evaluate ways for health care providers to talk with patients about COVID-19 vaccination.
Kimberly Fisher, MD, and Kathleen Mazor, EdD
“A strong recommendation from a health care provider is one of the most influential factors in somebody deciding to be vaccinated,” said Kimberly Fisher, MD, associate professor of medicine and co-author of the survey on attitudes toward a COVID-19 vaccine published i