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Constructing Population Health Programs That Reduce Health Disparities
We are happy to share Julie Smithwick's interview in Xtelligent Healthcare's Postcast about healthcare strategies. In this podcast, you can hear Julie Smithwick give concrete steps that any healthcare organization can do to help build a more equitable healthcare...
Access to Mental Healthcare Is Harder for Black Americans. Here’s Why
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 30 percent of Black American adults with mental health conditions receive treatment each year, compared to the U.S. average of 43 percent.
Center for Community Health Alignment awarded grant to enhance equity through cross-sector alignment
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Aligning Systems for Health has awarded $273K to the Arnold School’s Center for Community Health Alignment – one of seven recipients out of more than 150 applications for funding. In partnership with the Alliance...
Arnold School Center trains, supports community health workers as they serve SC communities on front lines of COVID-19 crisis
Director Julie Smithwick couldn’t have known about the impending COVID-19 pandemic that would ravage the world just one year later, but her timing couldn’t have been better. The Arnold School launched the Community Health Worker Institute (housed in the Center for...
Opinion: How pandemic is illuminating health care inequities in SC’s minority communities
As an administrative leader at one of South Carolina’s hospital systems, I am humbled and inspired by the brave frontline health care workers across our state who continue to care for patients every day in the face of COVID-19. They are the true heroes of this...
CHW Section Quarterly Newsletter
The "COVID-19 Conversations" series of rapid-response webinars from the National Academy of Medicine and the American Public Health Association is addressing the state of the science on COVID-19 and explore emerging evidence on how to best mitigate its impact. Led by...
Five CHWI Grantees
One year after its launch, the Arnold School’s Center for Community Health Alignment has announced the recipients of its first competitive grants program …
PASOs honored with health equity award
In addition to receiving two national awards from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs in 2019, PASOs was recently recognized with a third award from the Association. Last year, PASOs Health Connections was named a Best Practice for its effectiveness...