HaRaKa and NYU Tisch Present PRICKS Virtual Conference
The virtual event occurs on Friday, January 29, from 12:00 PM 4:00 PM (EST).by BWW News Desk
HaRaKa Platform, the Cairo and New York-based performance and research collective, announces its first event of 2021: PRICKS: Pandemic, Representation, Intimacy, Congregation and Knowledge Systems, an international virtual conference in partnership with NYU Tisch School of the Arts Department of Performance Studies.
The virtual event occurs on Friday, January 29, from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST). It is curated by Ph.D. Candidate Adham Hafez and features guest speakers from around the world who are specialists in performance theory and practice, law, urban planning, political science, and art history.
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In many rural areas, broadband remains too expensive, unreliable or simply not available at the speeds required to enable innovations in care. (Getty/ehrlif)
The Trump administration is doling out $8 million to improve broadband access for rural telehealth services.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded the funding to the Telehealth Broadband Pilot (TBP) program. That program will assess the broadband capacity available to rural health care providers and patient communities to improve their access to telehealth services. HHS has made it a priority to transform rural healthcare, including through innovations like telehealth, where we ve seen many years worth of progress in just the past year, said HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan in a statement.