Tag: Diversity
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Traveling to Support Medical School Diversity
Students, residents, faculty and staff recently traveled to San Francisco to attend the Student National Medical Association annual conference for current and future underrepresented minority medical students.
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Romantic Relationships Buffer LGBT Youth From Emotional Distress
Lesbian and gay youth showed significantly less psychological distress and were buffered against the negative effects of bullying and victimization when in a relationship.
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Striking Discoveries in Health Disparities
Scientists throughout Feinberg are deeply invested in identifying health disparities — those differences in health outcomes between populations — as well as exploring novel interventions.
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NUPOC Students Win Scholarship Honoring Prosthetics Pioneer
Charity Smith, first-year student in the Master’s in Prosthetics and Orthotics degree program, and Michael Hoggatt, second-year student in the program, were selected to receive the International African American Prosthetic and Orthotic Coalition Sam D. Benson Scholarship.
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Feinberg Commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. With a Week of Discussion and Awareness
Feinberg capped off its week-long celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with a keynote address by Charles Blow, op-ed columnist at the New York Times, political commentator on CNN and former Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale University.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities Worsen in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation
A new study finds that racial and ethnic disparities in live donor kidney transplantation have significantly increased over the last two decades, highlighting the need for national efforts to reduce disparities.
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High Diabetes Risk for Black Adults Is Driven by Obesity, Not Mystery
A Northwestern Medicine study has found that black and white populations have similar risk for developing diabetes when all biological factors are considered, upending a long-held consensus.
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Medical Student Tackles Health Disparities in Hispanic Communities
Nicolás Francone, a first-year medical student, combines his interests in medicine and policy to reduce inequality in care delivery and improve access to healthcare for Hispanic patients.
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Medical Student Investigates Health Disparities in South Asian Communities
Second-year medical student Apoorva Ram strives to reduce cardiovascular health disparities among South Asian Americans in both her research and her volunteer work.
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Holloway Delivers Diversity and Inclusion Lyceum Lecture
Jonathan Holloway, provost of Northwestern, shared a historical overview of African-Americans in modern universities during a lecture sponsored by Feinberg’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
