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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: Americans Struggle for New Balance and face contradictions as the Covid Pandemic lingers

...life has in many ways returned to something like the Before Times. Restaurants are packed, and cultural performances sold out. Children are sitting in schools, and workers are trickling back into offices. Masks are no longer required in public, even in New York City’s subways. 

The summer travel season was a blockbuster. Even cruise ships — derided as floating Petri dishes early in the pandemic — were filling up with eager passengers.

Most Americans want to get back to normalcy and are unwilling to let Covid rule their lives any longer, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid response coordinator, said in an interview. “Those two sets of goals are achievable,” Dr. Jha said, so long as Americans keep getting vaccinated, test when necessary and wear masks in crowded public settings.

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