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RSVP for this Virtual Series on Business Ethics & the Pandemic Moderated by Christopher Michaelson, PhD

This three part series is hosted by the University of St. Thomas' Opus College of Business via the The Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership.
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US News and World Report Releases New Public Health Program Rankings – But the only data are still peer popularity

Public Health Policy researcher JP Leider, PhD, makes sense of the recent rankings for U.S. Schools of Public Health.
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New Article: Educated Citizenry or Workforce Pipeline Development? Questions for the Future of Undergraduate Public Health in the United States

JP Leider, PhD, along with his co-authors, ask some big questions for the future of public health education as undergraduate degrees surpass MPH degrees for the first time.
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Patients With Vulnerable Immune Systems Worry Vaccine Exemptions May Put Them in Peril

Clinical Ethicist Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C weighs in on the dilemma.
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Dr. Tara Gustilo, Hennepin Healthcare Ob-Gyn doctor's Discrimination Lawsuit

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH comments on her research of race-based birth disparities.
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Immunocompromised patients worry vaccine exemptions put them in peril

Clinical Ethicist, Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C discusses how hospital staff can respond to questions about their vaccination status.
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Moral Distress and the Disability Paradox

Moral distress is a significant problem in health care. Its persistence among health care workers has carved away at the staffing numbers of hospitals. Nurses, physicians, and advanced practice providers all feel strapped - prevented from…
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Doctors fighting racial health disparities face threats, harassment

JP Leider, PhD pushes back on the success of political agendas to remove public health policies addressing health disparities based on race.
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New Article: Using qualitative, community-based input to steer post–coronavirus disease 2019 pharmacy practice in substance use

Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, PAT, AE-C co-authors a new article.
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Minneapolis African American civil rights leaders honored in ‘History Makers at Home’

The list includes Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH, reproductive health equity researcher and associate professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health.