There are few things sweeter than good friends.
A group of women found that out when they joined the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan s diabetes prevention program in 2019. All eight women, who live throughout Farmington Hills, Wayne, Inkster and Dearborn Heights, were pre-diabetic at the time and used the program to lose weight.
Some of them knew each other beforehand and some did not, but they all left the program close friends. When they get together now, greetings come in the form of happy shouts, teasing jokes and pandemic-friendly elbow bumps.
“It’s really a lifestyle change, Octavia Smith, of Inkster, said. It takes time to change a lifestyle, so a year-long program is really beneficial to doing that.”
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What do you do when the hashtag #wheresthemoney is about you? In late June, the Minnesota Freedom Fund recovered from controversy after apparently underspending $35 million of public donations. By then, the fund had used $250,000 to bail out protesters jailed after the police killing of George Floyd.
Board president Octavia Smith coolly explained to NPR that her three-person team ordinarily spent $250,000 in two years, not two weeks. They weren’t used to Kamala Harris and Don Cheadle endorsing them as a social-justice go-to.
Since 2016, the small nonprofit has worked to end what Smith has described as the oppressively complex and expensive money bail system, which can trap low-resource individuals without a conviction. To navigate that system, Smith pointed out to
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Health Disparities Symposium Presenters
NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity was honored to host Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, as the keynote speaker for the 2020 Health Disparities Symposium, which was centered around the theme “Turning Research into Action.”
Keynote Address
With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Mary T. Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Dr. Bassett is currently the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Hea