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Developing and Delivering a Comprehensive Vaccine COVID-19 Program: RapidVax
No full textRapidVax was developed in January 2021 to provide COVID-19 vaccination across Temple University’s College of Public Health (CPH). The scale-up phase of the project was an inter-professional effort to develop specific messaging about COVID-19 vaccination and delivered vaccination to communities in Philadelphia, esepcially vaccine-hesitant individuals and marginalized groups with limiteded access to health services. Emphasizing community engagement, evidenced-based message designs, and vaccine delivery, RapidVax has resulted in 1,542 individuals within the CPH and Temple, 2,685 of the general public vaccinated, of which approximately 74.9% were people of color and 16% were homeless (total doses given to date is 7,445). RapidVax, as an interprofessional collaboration between nursing, social work, pharmacy, and public health practitioners, is a promising model to deliver vaccination and decrease disparities
Present-Day Ethnocide: The Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Azerbaijan
No full textOngoing conflict in the Caucasus over both land claims and ethnic prejudice between Armenia and Azerbaijan has perpetuated the destruction of cultural heritage sites in the region. In particular, the Azerbaijani government has successfully eliminated an Armenian religious landmark, Julfa Cemetery, which had previously been home to the largest number of khachkar tombstones in the world. Following the demolition of Julfa Cemetery, the Azerbaijani government denied that the cemetery had ever existed. This denial is not unique to the instance of Julfa Cemetery and the khachkars, but rather serves as an example of a pattern of behavior that seeks to rewrite the cultural history of Azerbaijan to intentionally exclude ethnic Armenians who had resided within Azeri borders for centuries. These occurrences, in addition to significant anti-Armenian prejudice in Azerbaijan, indicates a substantial desire to erase the cultural heritage of Armenians both inside Azerbaijan and across the diaspora. In order to establish this evidence, I examined reports from various non-governmental organizations operating in and around the Caucasus, works from historians and genocide scholars, as well as journalistic accounts published in both notable news sources and independent journals. However, it is important to note that a large amount of factually ambiguous works are published by Azeris, Armenians, and their governments which makes the study of this issue complex. Nevertheless, with this evidence established, this paper will argue that the actions of the Azerbaijani government at Julfa Cemetery and across Azerbaijan constitute ethnocide in which a dominant power seeks to eradicate the cultural identity of a group
Dissemination and Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity: An Imperative for Systemic Change
No full textInnovations in public health research and evidence-based interventions targeting chronic and infectious diseases are only effective if they reach their target populations. Individuals from low socioeconomic background, racial and ethnic minorities, and sexual/gender minority communities are most susceptible to chronic diseases such as obesity and cancer, and infectious diseases such as HIV and COVID-19. These disparities are driven by social and structural conditions including stigma and discrimination, housing instability and food insecurity. Accordingly, interventions that aim to improve population health must be targeted toward marginalized communities who are often systematically excluded from decision making processes. This article introduces dissemination and implementation science as a key opportunity to advance health equity through integrating measures and metrics that evaluate if an intervention is successful at improving health outcomes in marginalized populations. Implementation science also provides frameworks to help evaluate the key determinants to implementation success which can inform subsequent health outcomes. Examples of how researchers have engaged with community stakeholders are provided, along with ways in which dissemination has gone beyond traditional practices. Finally, ways in which universities can build capacity for implementation science as a means to address health disparities are provided with the goal of improving the translation of research to practice
“Facing” the Repercussions of Sexual Harm: A scoping review on neuroimaging studies using emotional stimuli with survivors of sexual violence
Full text linkWhile some neuroimaging research has attempted to understand sexual violence (SV) survivor responses to emotional stimuli, no review has aggregated these studies to draw conclusions across articles. The purpose of this review was to aggregate research that used neuroimaging techniques to explore SV survivor responses to emotional stimuli. Studies published in PubMed prior to October 2021 were identified using key search terms including phrases relating to “sexual violence,” “neuroimaging,” and “emotional stimuli.” Articles were only included if they followed the aforementioned criteria, were empirical, and were written in English. Articles were excluded if they did not conduct SV-specific analyses. Our refined PubMed search yielded 87 articles. Articles went through a title and abstract review, then a full text review. We found that in the remaining eleven studies that met our full text review, SV survivors displayed significantly heightened brain response patterns when exposed to emotional stimuli compared to control groups (e.g. temporal lobe all areas (n=8), amygdala activation (n=5), parietal lobe activation (n=4), frontal lobe activation (n=5)). Ten of the 11 articles used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain responses, while one used a PET scan. Given the variety of results on brain areas impacted, more research needs to be completed in this area. However, preliminary findings show that SV has some effect on the brain which may explain differences in survivor emotional reactivity.
 
