CHER Journal Club & Research

Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, moderated a panel discussion with Bismarck Steven Bisono Garcia, MD, and Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH, for the inaugural installment of the COVID Health Equity Journal Club. This discussion focused on how health equity factors exemplify changing needs experienced during and as a part of the COVID pandemic through the lens of the journal article Identifying Health Equity Factors That Influence the Public's Perception of COVID-19 Health Information and Recommendations: A Scoping Review. The panelists discussed the article’s introduction, methodology and major takeaways as well as their insights and recommendations on how to apply these tools to our daily work and understanding about how to approach COVID-19 today. 

Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, moderated a panel discussion with Bismarck Steven Bisono Garcia, MD, and Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH, for the inaugural installment of the COVID Health Equity Journal Club. This discussion focused on how health equity factors exemplify changing needs experienced during and as a part of the COVID pandemic through the lens of the journal article Identifying Health Equity Factors That Influence the Public's Perception of COVID-19 Health Information and Recommendations: A Scoping Review. The panelists discussed the article’s introduction, methodology and major takeaways as well as their insights and recommendations on how to apply these tools to our daily work and understanding about how to approach COVID-19 today. 

Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, moderated a panel discussion with Bismarck Steven Bisono Garcia, MD, and Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH, for the inaugural installment of the COVID Health Equity Journal Club. This discussion focused on how health equity factors exemplify changing needs experienced during and as a part of the COVID pandemic through the lens of the journal article Identifying Health Equity Factors That Influence the Public's Perception of COVID-19 Health Information and Recommendations: A Scoping Review. The panelists discussed the article’s introduction, methodology and major takeaways as well as their insights and recommendations on how to apply these tools to our daily work and understanding about how to approach COVID-19 today. 

This project is creating an in-depth view of how states, districts, and their communities responded to the pandemic, with a focus on Black and Latinx communities. It looks at data and community partnerships within six states: California, Florida, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.

CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health developed the Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index to help identify minority communities that may need support before, during and after the pandemic.

CDC presents COVID-19 vaccination data, which can be viewed in relation to location, the social vulnerability index, vaccination status and age. 

This Kaiser Family Foundation report presents an update on the status of COVID-19 cases and deaths, vaccinations and treatments by race/ethnicity as of fall 2022, based on federal data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the pandemic has contributed to growing awareness and focus on addressing racial disparities, this report shows that they persist, reflecting the underlying structural inequities that drive them. The findings highlight the importance of a continued focus on equity and efforts to address inequities that leave people of color at increased risk for exposure, illness and death as well as to close gaps in access to health care, including COVID-19 treatments.

The National Association of Community Health Workers outline resources to support community-based organizations and workforces in making informed decisions around COVID-19 vaccines and testing with a health equity lens.

Lagevrio and Paxlovid are oral antiviral drugs effective at preventing hospitalization and death in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who are at risk for progression to severe disease. This article reviews the rate and pattern of oral antiviral drugs dispensed in the U.S. from Dec. 23, 2021-May 21, 2022. Additional public health, regulatory and policy efforts might help decrease barriers to oral antiviral access, particularly in communities with high social vulnerability.

Public Health Reports provides commentary on how to improve vaccination rates by developing creative strategies for overcoming barriers to vaccination access.

This article examines how global vaccine inequity arose, lays out a renewed case for urgently ramping up the commitment to vaccine equity and proposes principles to ensure no one is left behind in the quest to vaccinate the world.

Black Americans are disproportionately represented among COVID-19 related morbidities and mortalities. Black pharmacists have worked to address the pandemic's deleterious effects that have been recognized within Black communities and have been integral to promoting equity in COVID-19 uptake within Black communities by disseminating factual, trustworthy information in collaboration with community leaders. This publication offers a framework that describes the role of Black pharmacists in narrowing vaccine equity gaps.

This MMWR article explored racial and ethnic disparities in outpatient COVID-19 treatment through July 2022, encouraging the expansion of programs to increase awareness of and access to available outpatient COVID-19 treatments to help protect people at high risk for severe illness and facilitate equitable health outcomes.

The authors of this research letter highlighted in JAMA Internal Medicine conducted semi-structured interviews to determine reasons for low vaccination rates in Black communities and preferred strategies to promote COVID-19 vaccination.

Oxford University Press created collections of published material and research on equity and health care.

This article provides background on how structural racism and police violence have affected mothers and babies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors outline why more research is needed and provide resources pertaining to racism, violence and COVID-19.

This page summarizes NIH-funded research on converging health threats in Black communities.