In October 2016, a resident in New York City (NYC) called 911 stating that their neighbor, Ms. Deborah Danner, was acting “erratic”, by yelling and screaming. The NY Police Department sent over an officer…
Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch philosopher, describes the principle which is at the core of modern medicine: preventing an illness, called primary prevention, is better than curing an illness once it has begun, called secondary prevention…
Structural Racism and Health: How Communities Promote Equity and Healing. The symposium includes a poster gallery and featured two speakers, Reverend Liz Walker and Michael Curry, Esq. Watch the recorded symposium and view posters using the following link…
What are the Different Types of Vaccines?
Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson have all developed an FDA approved vaccine for COVID-19. Read on to learn specifics and differences about the vaccines…
My turn to get vaccinated finally came on a Thursday in early January.
As a psychiatrist at MGH working with patients with serious mental illnesses, I had provided in-person care throughout the pandemic, with anxiety about getting infected myself mostly in the beginning when we were still sorting out infection control measures…
One way or the other, the COVID 19 vaccine is on peoples’ minds. Should I or shouldn’t I? If not now, when? Is it safe or is it not? Is it safe for some but not for others?
For me, the decision came relatively easily- I’d been getting vaccines and boosters all my life with no ill effects. Statistically speaking, my age and health conditions put me in a “higher risk” category for contracting COVID…
Introduction
Nepal, one of the least developed countries with a population of about 28 million, is a landlocked country surrounded by India and China. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the capital city, Kathmandu, on January 23, 2020. As of April 8, 2021, there…
The Cory Johnson Program for Post-Traumatic Healing (CJP) is a spiritually inspired, community-based, clinically supported program that addresses the epidemic of post-traumatic stress in urban neighborhoods including exposure to violence, poverty, and racism…
States are striving to distribute more COVID-19 vaccines to communities of color, as concern escalates over racial inequities in vaccine distribution. State-level data show a racial disparity, with Black and Latinx people obtaining fewer COVID-19 vaccinations than their white counterparts, despite their higher risks of contracting COVID-19…
The Spring 2021 Newsletter was dedicated to what is the public health decision of a lifetime for adults in the United States – whether to receive a vaccination for COVID-19…
