Boston College Connell School of Nursing students pictured during their 2020 service trip to Jamaica. With international travel restrictions in place, this year the service trip will take place in Northern Maine. Courtesy photo
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BOSTON For the past two decades, Donna Cullinan has led students from Boston College Connell School of Nursing on service trips to Haiti or Jamaica. This year, with pandemic and travel restrictions preventing their usual international travel, the students will bring their abilities and resources to underserved Maine communities close to the Canadian border.
Cullinan, a clinical assistant professor at the school, began organizing the trips after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake. Each January break, she would bring faculty, alumni, undergraduate seniors doing their population health clinical, and nurse practitioner students in their final year before certification.
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By Jacqueline Tetrault Pilot Staff Posted: 4/9/2021
Boston College Connell School of Nursing students pictured during their 2020 service trip to Jamaica. With international travel restrictions in place, this year the service trip will take place in Northern Maine. Courtesy photo BOSTON For the past two decades, Donna Cullinan has led students from Boston College Connell School of Nursing on service trips to Haiti or Jamaica. This year, with pandemic and travel restrictions preventing their usual international travel, the students will bring their abilities and resources to underserved Maine communities close to the Canadian border.
Cullinan, a clinical assistant professor at the school, began organizing the trips after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake. Each January break, she would bring faculty, alumni, undergraduate seniors doing their population health clinical, and nurse practitioner students in their final year before certification.
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Local medical providers address health disparities among transgender patients in rural Maine
Maine Public Health and University of Maine at Augusta Social Sciences Program address barriers through Zoom panels and dialogues.
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The Maine Public Health Association and the Social Sciences Program at the University of Maine at Augusta have been addressing barriers to health care that people experience through the monthly Zoom panels, Health Equity Dialogues. February focused on challenges that transgender patients face when accessing health care, often more apparent in rural Maine such as Franklin County.
Primary concerns expressed by the Feb. 10 panelists included data collection, transphobic attitudes and the lack of trans-competent providers, doctors and medical professionals who have had training and experience working with people who identify as transgender.