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Epi Collaborations Examine Links Between Racism and Mental Illness
In the Columbia Mailman Psychiatric Epidemiology Training (PET) Program, fellows receive five years of funding and an invitation to think slowly and deeply about high-stakes issues in the field. During the program’s weekly seminar, faculty offer further food for thought.
Will California’s Medicaid expansion reach the ‘hardly reached’ in California’s far north?
In October, we traveled to Tulelake in California’s far northern Siskiyou County, to talk to undocumented farmworkers about their experience with health care. Across the board, in interviews with close to a dozen individuals, the response was near universal.
VA launches new surgery initiative across the nation, a critical step to saving the lives of Veterans considering surgery
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum announced VA’s Surgical Pause practice has been recognized with the prestigious John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award in the National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality category for its innovative efforts resulting in improved health care outcomes of frail Veterans considering surgery.
Most of Russia’s opposition is either dead, in exile abroad or in prison at home. What happens now?
Alexei Navalny was asked four years ago what he’d tell Russians if he were killed for challenging President Vladimir Putin. “You’re not allowed to give up,” he told a documentary maker. “If they decide to kill me, it means we are incredibly strong and we need to use this power.”
How California political power could shift south – and to the left – after Feinstein
Younger, more liberal, more weighted to the south: California’s political demography is shifting, particularly as two of its political lions move off the stage. For generations, the Bay Area has punched above its weight in terms of influence, and California’s political position has grown up – and old – with it.
