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Webinar Thursday, Nov. 17, The High Human Stakes of Ongoing Support for the Community Health Workforce

Johns Hopkins

 

New Webinar: The High Human Stakes of Ongoing Support for the Community Health Workforce

 Thursday, November 17, 2022      2:00-3:30pm ET

Community-based workforces and organizations who share in the worldviews, practical struggles, and cultural pride of the racial and ethnic communities they serve have been key to advancing health equity in the United States. They have also been indispensable in closing the gaps in health and human services for the populations whom the pandemic has hurt in uneven numbers and intensity. They have, for instance, worked diligently to overcome material and attitudinal barriers to COVID-19 vaccination coverage within local Black and Hispanic/Latino communities.

 

We invite you to hear from local community leaders and their CommuniHealth research partners about:

·    How this human-centered, community health infrastructure continues to exercise unmatched skills during the pandemic response,

·    What further advances in health and wellbeing can be had if these local champions receive sustained support going forward, and

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Analysis: New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The U.S. Still Has Problems in Containing Them.

If it wasn’t clear enough during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become obvious during the monkeypox outbreak: The United States, among the richest, most advanced nations in the world, remains wholly unprepared to combat new pathogens.

The coronavirus was a sly, unexpected adversary. Monkeypox was a familiar foe, and tests, vaccines and treatments were already at hand. But the response to both threats sputtered and stumbled at every step.

“It’s kind of like we’re seeing the tape replayed, except some of the excuses that we were relying on to rationalize what happened back in 2020 don’t apply here,” said Sam Scarpino, who leads pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute.

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