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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law JHPPL Call for Paper Proposals  Health Politics and Policy under COVID-19 The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL) invites the submission of paper proposals for a special issue on health politics and policy under COVID-19. Sarah Gollust (University of Minnesota) and...

How The Coronavirus Is Disproportionately Impacting Black Americans. The coronavirus pandemic is hitting some communities much harder than others. We’ll take a look at the disproportionate toll it’s taking on African Americans. Giselle Corbie-Smith appears on NPR to discuss impact of COVID-19 on African Americans. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/04/09/coronavirus-african-americans

Jill Fisher, Professor of Social Medicine, has published a new book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (NYU Press). https://nyupress.org/9781479862160/adverse-events/ Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results. Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug....

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — We know COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate. Anyone can get it. But we also know this virus is impacting people differently. https://abc11.com/society/how-minorities-are-disproportionately-affected-by-covid-19-in-nc/6160850/

  Prisons Doing Mass Testing For COVID-19 Find Rampant Infections | The Marshall Project An Arkansas county so rural it has just three incorporated towns and not a single stretch of interstate suddenly emerged this week as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots.Ground zero in Lincoln County, about an hour’s...

Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis led by Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, of UNC’s departments of social medicine and family medicine, finds there is insufficient evidence at present to answer that question. Clinicians should make shared decisions with patients about treatment,...

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The study led by UNC’s Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, in the departments of social medicine and family medicine, finds that most of the approval processes used by medical specialty societies in the U.S. have the potential to undermine editorial independence of the guideline development committee. http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2020/february/approval-processes-for-clinical-practice-guidelines-introduce-potential-conflicts-of-interest-review-finds?utm_source=vs-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229004