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In this newsletter: News | Webinars | Resources | Funding Opportunities
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Register for Today's Webinar-
Communities in Partnership:
Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID-19
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Pandemic Call and Response:
Black Queer & Trans Communities
May 6, 2020
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the UNC Center for Health Equity Research have partnered to launch the webinar series, Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID-19.
Join us each session on Wednesdays at 1pm ET as we highlight the disparate impact of the disease in the most vulnerable communities in our nation. |
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Crystal Wiley Cene, MD, MPH,
Featured Expert Panelist
May 7, 2020
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UNC CHER Associate, Crsytal Wiley Cene will be a featured expert panelist on the webinar 'COVID19 It's Impact on the African American Community.' This webinar will take place at 6:30 PM ET.
Alarming Statistics:
African-American population in NC is 22%. However, COVID 19 cases make up—38% and deaths—35%.
Featured Expert Panelists:
- Dr. Mary Braithwaite, Chapel Hill Pediatrics and Adolescents
- Dr. Isaretta Riley, Duke Pulmonary/Critical Care
- Dr. Crystal Wiley Cene, UNC Internal Medicine
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Research Program Manager Position
Social Medicine Department
5/19/2020
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| The Program Manager position will lead the successful completion of the UNC-Chapel Hill scope of work on New IDEAS, an Alzheimer’s study. New IDEAS is a contracted project being completed in partnership with American College of Radiology (ACR) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), among others. UNC-Chapel Hill’s scope of work is to co-lead the national recruitment of African American and Latinx participants with VUMC. The national recruitment of participants will be completed with community-engaged approaches in approximately 10 US regions with prevalent African American and Latinx older adult populations. |
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Healing Justice Approaches to Self and Community Care
May 5, 2020
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| The Institute for Healing Justice and Equity Webinar Series: The Color of COVID, is launching a new webinar. Healing justice is the practice of community and self-care that takes into consideration the stresses and trauma of oppression. COVID-19 has highlighted and exacerbated systemic inequities that disproportionately impact the lives of people of color, and this panel highlights practitioners who have taken innovative approaches to healing justice before and during the pandemic. |
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Helping People With Addiction Stay Connected During COVID-19
May 7, 2020
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Individuals experiencing addiction are a vulnerable population that have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical distancing protocols have separated patients from their clinicians, made medications to treat addiction much more challenging to obtain, and shuttered many long-term recovery groups.
The first webinar in this series will focus on how to ensure that patients remain connected to and engaged in addiction treatment during the pandemic, and provide practical approaches to ensuring continuity of care. |
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Supporting Clinician Well-Being
During COVID-19
May 7, 2020
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Join the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience for a webinar on Supporting Clinician Well-Being During COVID-19 on Thursday, May 7th from 1:30 PM-3:00 PM ET.
This webinar will provide a timely discussion and platform for physicians, nurses, students, and health system leaders to delve into the critical needs, priorities, and emerging strategies to support the mental and emotional well-being of clinicians on the frontlines—both during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar is open to the public and will be recorded. |
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Emergency Preparedness, Ethics and Equity Series: Protection for People Who Are Incarcerated
May 8, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic, and our response to this disease, have underscored deep, persistent societal inequities. The Emergency Preparedness, Ethics and Equity Series will explore how we can continue to foster inclusive excellence and health equity during the most turbulent of times. Speakers will explore ways to consistently apply culturally relevant, ethical and equitable decision-making so that the most vulnerable among us are not left further disenfranchised post-COVID-19.
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Explore issues at the intersection of Black Arts & Museums & COVID19
May 8, 2020
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| We will explore issues at the intersection of Black Arts & Muesums & COVID19. Our panelists will include Jonell Logan (Charlotte, NC); Sonny Kelly (Chapel Hill, NC); and Carl Juste (Miami, FL).. |
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Food Insecurity & Growing Concerns During COVID-19
May 11, 2020
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| This webinar will bring together experts to provide insights on the longstanding issues surrounding food insecurity in the United States and how these issues have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Your Only Goal Is to Arrive:
To survive quarantine, you need to change your metrics
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Click below to read the hilarious, yet honest article on how to maintain your sanity during COVID-19.
"When our son was a year old, my pregnant wife and I endured a grueling day of travel from northern Michigan to Los Angeles, where we lived at the time. A canceled flight and a missed connection led to five hours in the Detroit airport with a squirmy child whose undiagnosed ear infection had kept any of us from sleeping the night prior."
Paul Ollinger, Forge |
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Gillings School partners with state, local agencies in NC to study COVID-19 cases with mild or no symptoms
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| The Gillings School, including the North Carolina Institute of Public Health, is teaming up with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and other partners across the state to learn more about the prevalence of COVID-19 cases in N.C. that are mild or asymptomatic. |
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Meals for Kids in North Carolina During COVID-19 School Closures
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| No Kid Hungry NC does not provide food directly to kids. We support those who do through grant funding for innovative programs, marketing tools, technical assistance, and much more. The free meals for kids that can be found with the tools below are being provided by school districts and community partners through federally-assisted USDA child nutrition programs -- managed in our state by the NC Department of Public Instruction -- that normally operate in the summer to keep kids in need healthy while school is out.
Find pick-up meals near you:
Find delivery meals and other options:
Don't forget:
- Contact sites to verify information
- Check school, district, or organization's website, social media, and other communications for the most up-to-date information
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How can communities around the world prepare for, detect, and respond to emerging pandemics and health security threats?
June 18, 2020
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Over $1.5 million in prize funding is available for Solve's 2020 Global Challenges, including Health Security & Pandemics. Learn more.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is the latest in a series of infectious disease emergencies, including cholera, Ebola, SARS, Chikungunya, HIV/AIDS, and influenza. While scientists and drug developers, with support from governments and multilateral organizations, have been rushing to produce, test, and deliver vaccines and treatments, tech innovators also have a crucial role to play, both in the near term and to prevent and mitigate future disease outbreaks. |
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