by Dakshu Jindal | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Mike Young is an expert on culture. He has studied it and lived it for his entire life. As a teenager from rural El Salvador, Young’s mother waited at the Mexico-U.S. border for two weeks before immigrating to California with a sixth-grade education. She learned...
by Dakshu Jindal | Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Keeping it real about COVID19 Vaccine- a recorded session on vaccine hesitancy with BirthMatters. Dr. Jane Kelly talks with CHW Takia Daniels talks about her vaccine journey in a discussion moderated by BirthMatters Executive Director Molly Chappell-Mcphail. Read...
by Dakshu Jindal | Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Despite growing up in a small town in Costa Rica before the internet era, Kathia Valverde still had somewhere to turn for information when she began questioning her sexuality — her librarian, Carmen. Today, Valverde helps others get information — not as a librarian,...
by Dakshu Jindal | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
The South Carolina Primary Health Care Association recognized the Arnold School’s Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA) with its Community Health Care Leadership Award during their virtual State Policy & Issue Forum in January. Designed to acknowledge an...
by Rich Strater | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
COVID-19 vaccines are now available in South Carolina to help prevent this infectious disease. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is encouraging everyone to continue wearing masks, staying physically distant, avoiding crowds – and...
by Rich Strater | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
When the workers at a pistachio packing plant in California’s Central Valley started falling ill last spring, they turned to Veronica Perez with questions. Ms. Perez is not a doctor or public health official — she’s a trained outreach volunteer from the nonprofit...
