"...Dr. Dayna Johnson and Ivan Wu believe that sleep equity solutions need to be community oriented in order to effect substantial and sustainable change." - from Sheila Eldred #WBOBProud sahanjournal.com/health/sleep-s…

Introducing our next ESI program award winner: Ivan Wu from UMN School of Public Health who does important work on the mechanisms underlying social determinants of minority-related #stress, behaviors, and health. Learn more about this up & coming researcher here: directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/iv…

Comprehensive review spanning molecular biological mechanisms linking behavior and aging. nature.com/articles/s4139…

An important new JAMA study estimates the economic burden of health inequities for racial/ethnic minority populations to be $421-$451 billion, and for education-related inequities, nearly *$1 trillion* jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Big ups to the Metro Youth Diversion Center leadership and staff for a fun, engaging, and successful health fair!

In an effort to address health disparities, #UMNCancer researcher Ivan Wu and U of M assistant professor Abdifatah Ali are working to help educate people in the East African community about cancer. They caught up with MPR News to talk through the details: ow.ly/tQY350OKvVU.

#UMN researchers Abdifatah Ali & Ivan Wu are in the midst of a 2-year project w the goal of reducing cancer disparities within the East African community. Carlson School of Management UMN School of Public Health #UMNresearch #UMNproud mprnews.org/story/2023/06/…

📢 Attn #CancerResearch researchers! The Division of Epidemiology & Community Health UMN School of Public Health is hiring an Assistant Professor with expertise in cancer epidemiology! #EpiJobs #epitwitter #AcademicTwitter

Daughter coming home saying, "Speak my language," and "I'm Japanese" (she is not...) immediately turned our family talks about racial socialization and identity from theory to urgent reality. the tough part is teaching Sellers' model to a toddler... psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-15…

Sitting on my first selection committee reminds me of Meehl's position on case conceptualization... arguing for a comprehensive approach, merging both quantitative metrics and qualitative depth

On our cover this week ⬇ A Viewpoint on the need for pragmatic, affordable, and practice-changing real-life clinical trials in #oncology: bit.ly/495NtC6 Full issue in thread 🧵

Students citing newly published "seminal theories" related to race-based trauma that don't actually cite seminal theory is why we need instructors trained and grounded in this area.

New open access pub out! We used mixed methods to compare and contrast adolescents’ and researchers’ observations of neighborhood environmental features. doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.1…

As a former member of the MII lab and working with undergrad and postdoc mentors with similar visions, I feel lucky to be able to pay forward their effort and dedication to forge a similar experience for the trainees I work with. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Have to work twice as hard" mantra is on target

📣 CHWs & health educators working with Somali or Oromo communities in MN: We're developing a cancer prevention training with CHWs for CHWs: 🎤 60min interview 💳 $75 gc 🧠 Your input directly shapes the final training 📩 [email protected] #CHW #SomaliHealth #OromoHealth

New title: Understanding Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Society 3rd Edition titles.cognella.com/understanding-…

Congratulations! #Nepal 🇳🇵 has eliminated #rubella as a public health problem, becoming the sixth country in World Health Organization South-East Asia to do so. This success reflects the commitment & efforts of leaders, health workers, volunteers & community members to ensure a healthy start for babies & a