Topic: public health
healthcare inequities
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine assistant professors Brigham Walker and Janna Wisniewski and professors from Portland State University presented research on the barriers patients from marginalized communities face when seeking primary care appointments and how healthcare providers can address these inequities. The research is part of Count the Costs: Racial Inequity, launched by The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the A. B.https://tulane.it/healthcare-inequities
Pandemic Perspectives
Five Tulane doctors recall the first days of COVID-19 and lament public misinformation. They advise people to keep their guard up and be compassionate as we move forward.
WINE IN MODERATION
Drinking a little wine with dinner may help lower risks of developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Preliminary results of a study by Dr. Hao Ma, a research fellow at the Tulane Obesity Research Center and the Tulane Personalized Health Institute, and others were presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Conference 2022 in Chicago. https://tulane.it/wine-in-moderation
Hall of Fame
For the first time, Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Awards were bestowed on Tulane’s stellar researchers and scholars. We devote several stories to them in this issue of the Tulanian.
Quoted: Laviest in Washington Post
“These are the types of traumas that chip away at your resilience. … And people of color have to be more resilient because we face
more trauma.”
https://tulane.it/laveist-washington-post-2021
QUOTED: THOMAS LAVEIST 2021
“The reason that we’re not treating COVID like any other virus, like we treat smallpox and mumps, is that it became politicized.”https://tulane.it/thomas-laveist-npr
QUOTED: THOMAS LAVEIST
“I completely understand the mistrust. But you have to consider the risk of COVID versus the risk of the vaccine. This is a devastating disease and it has disproportionately impacted Black Americans. That is what we do know.” https://tulane.it/thomas-laveist-ap-news-2020
A Good Night’s Sleep
A Tulane study found that adults with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42 percent lower risk of heart failure regardless of other risk factors compared to adults with unhealthy sleep patterns.
Medicine and Public Health on the Front Lines
Tulane’s MD/MPH joint degree program has trained physician leaders for 50 years — and counting.
Health Equity
As the COVID-19 crisis engulfs the Black community, Thomas LaVeist, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, explains why — and leads the way to changing the unjust health gap.
