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Senator Warren, Brinkley-Rubinstein & Nowotny release Op-Ed about COVID-19 and Prison Data
January 5, 2021 – Senator Elizabeth Warren, CHER’s Core Faculty Dr. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein and colleague, Dr. Kathryn Nowotny, Co-Founders of The COVID Prison Project, released an Op-Ed calling for more comprehensive data collection of incarcerated individuals and staff through the current bill, COVID-19 in Corrections Data Transparency Act. Mandated data collection would help with … Continued
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Dr. Corbie-Smith and Dr. Essien on Dr. Shapiro’s Explore the Space Podcast
November 9, 2020 – Mark Shapiro, MD’s Explore the Space released a new podcast episode where Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, CHER Director and Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine was recently interviewed by Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine & health equity researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of … Continued
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Dr. Corbie-Smith on MSNBC’s Velshi Across America 2020 to Discuss COVID-19 in North Carolina
“My concern with these kinds of comments and the misinformation that we have out there is the way it’s undermining the trust in science and our healthcare systems at the very time we need our people and our communities to have accurate information and ways to protect themselves” –Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, CHER director … Continued
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NIH Awards $12 Million for Community Engagement Research in Areas Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19
Original publish date: October 19, 2020 “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced a $12 million award for outreach and engagement efforts in ethnic and racial minority communities that are being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The award to RTI International, a nonprofit research institution, will support teams in 11 states that are … Continued
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