Integrating Students into Interdisciplinary Health and Health Disparities Research Teams

Major initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as the World Health Organization have produced a large and compelling body of evidence on how to reduce health disparities, which entails having a clear understanding of how social factors shape health and healthcare outcomes. Specifically, there is a need for healthcare professionals to understand social determinants of health (e.g., low socioeconomic status, lack of health insurance, and poor education) and how these lead to disparities in health for people of minority racial and ethnic groups. Little is known about how students are developed as health disparities researchers or how their research experiences impact their views about addressing social determinants of health as a career goal. The purpose of this paper is to describe how health and human sciences students were integrated into three minority HIV prevention and testing projects using the lifelong learning for health professionals (LLHP) principles and activities framework, which entails a focus on: (a) education, (b) community, and (c) organization in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of interdisciplinary research

The rise and fall of an empire: critical reflections on the National Programme for IT in England

This presentation was given as part of the Health Studies and Community Health Division Seminar Series 2011-12 by Dr Amir Takian from the School of Health Sciences and Social Care at Brunel University on the 8th December 2011. Prior to joining Brunel as a Lecturer of Health Policy in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Dr Takian was a Research Fellow in the Department of Practice and Policy in the School of Pharmacy at the University of London

Recent Findings from Research by Bridgewater Faculty and Librarians

Conference paper abstracts recently presented by Bridgewater faculty members: Barbara Bond, Assistant Professor, Social Work Lydia Burak, Professor, Department of Movement Arts, Health Promotion, and Leisure Studies Robert Cicerone, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences Brian Frederick, Assistant Professor, Political Science Martin Grossman, Associate Professor, Management James Leone, Assistant Professor, Department of Movement Arts, Health Promotion, and Leisure Studies

El Estado de Salud de los Jóvenes Uruguayos

This work studies the health status of young Uruguayan population based on the Survey on Health and Social Networks, carried by Department of Economics of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UdelaR, during the year 2004. Through an ordered probit model,Health status, young people, risky behaviour, Uruguay

The Social Licence for Research:Why care.data Ran Into Trouble

In this article we draw on the concept of a social licence to explain public concern at the introduction of care.data, a recent English initiative designed to extract data from primary care medical records for commissioning and other purposes, including research. The concept of a social licence describes how the expectations of society regarding some activities may go beyond compliance with the requirements of formal regulation; those who do not fulfil the conditions for the social licence (even if formally compliant) may experience ongoing challenge and contestation. Previous work suggests that people's cooperation with specific research studies depends on their perceptions that their participation is voluntary and is governed by values of reciprocity, non-exploitation and service of the public good. When these conditions are not seen to obtain, threats to the social licence for research may emerge. We propose that care.data failed to adequately secure a social licence because of: (i) defects in the warrants of trust provided for care.data, (ii) the implied rupture in the traditional role, expectations and duties of general practitioners, and (iii) uncertainty about the status of care.data as a public good. The concept of a social licence may be useful in explaining the specifics of care.data, and also in reinforcing the more general lesson for policy-makers that legal authority does not necessarily command social legitimacy

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, January 8, 2009

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Department of Plants, Soils and Climate Credit Hour Change Prerequisite Change Delete Course Huntsman School of Business Grading Mode Change Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Prerequisite Change Department of Psychology Title Change, Course Description Change, Flexible Title for Sections Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering New Course Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Prerequisite Change Department of Military Science Add University Studies Designation Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology New Course Dual List Change, Prerequisite Change Credit Hour Change, Dual List Change Other Creating a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science Changing the name of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences The Departments of Environment and Society and Watershed Sciences to jointly offering the Geography degre

Harmonization of epidemiology of acute kidney injury and acute kidney disease produces comparable findings across four geographic populations

Acknowledgements: We acknowledge the support of the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) facility within the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science and the associated financial support of the University of Aberdeen, and NHS Research Scotland (through NHS Grampian investment in DaSH). For more information, visit the DaSH website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/facilities/grampian-data-safe-haven.php Dr Sawhney is supported by a Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers from the Academy of Medical Sciences, Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Arthritis Research UK, the Royal College of Physicians and Diabetes UK [SGL020\1076]. Drs James and Tonelli are supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation Grants. Dr Black is supported by Health Data Research UK, which is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Department of Health and Social Care (England), Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), British Heart Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Preliminary Characterisation of NP339, a Novel Polyarginine Peptide with Broad Antifungal Activity

FUNDING SOURCE The study was funded by NovaBiotics with support from The UK Governments’ Department of Health and Social Care, delivered by Innovate UK. Shane Smith and Carol Munro’s contribution to the project was funded by a Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance Bioskape grant award.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Confronting Inequity: Social Justice Dialogue in a Health Science Library

Objective: To demonstrate how a departmental social justice discussion group was successful in achieving its purpose in introducing and discussing health-related social justice narratives and perspectives with personal meaning to each department member. Methods: In the aftermath George Floyd’s death, the Assistant Director of Research and Education Services at a health sciences library proposed devoting a portion of staff meetings to discuss issues in social justice and anti-racism. Each department member would generate a topic and organize readings or links to media in an internal LibGuide. Initially, there was a total of seven discussions, each lasting an average of twenty minutes. Each staff member described their motivation in selecting their topic and accompanying resources and led the subsequent discussion. Results: Discussion topics included white fragility, racial disparities surrounding leg amputations of Black diabetes patients in Mississippi, transracial adoption, local food deserts, white privilege in medical school education, black transgender violence and discrimination, and pipeline institutional racism. The readings and discussions revealed marginalized group perceptions and reality are not necessarily willingly acknowledged or addressed by the privileged group. The topic of food deserts was identified for follow-up action because of the need in the residential area adjacent to the health sciences campus. Conclusions: Participants felt the topics were timely, thought-provoking and useful in understanding current imbalances in social equity in health-related areas. Each department member could identify and share a social justice area of concern. Many of the topics are addressed in critical librarianship scholarship, and lessons from the discussions could be applied to increased understanding of, and service to, marginalized users of their library’s community. Team members agreed to continue the discussions at staff meetings once per month on broader diversity and social justice topics