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ABC News: "Unconscious Racial Bias Shapes Whom We Trust", 08/10/2011

A report on ABC World News tonight titled “Unconscious Racial Bias Shapes Whom We Trust”included an interview with Leslie Hausmann, PhD. Dr. Hausmann’s article “Impact of Perceived Discrimination in Healthcare on Patient-Provider Communication” was published in the July 2011 issue of Medical Care. C. Kent Kwoh, MD and Said Ibrahim, MD, MPH, were co-authors of the article.




http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/unconscious-racial-bias-shapes-trust-money/story?id=13437350

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A Place to Call Home: Secure Housing as a Keystone of Young People’s Health highlighted on National Public Radio series, 08/10/2011

“A Place to Call Home: Secure Housing as a Keystone of Young People’s Health,” a white paper co-authored by CHERP Core Investigator Carolynn Cannuscio, ScD, was featured in a series of five reports on “Newsworks” on National Public Radio’s WHYY-FM. http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/21640

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Society of General Internal Medicine honors Michael Fine for career achievement, 06/24/2011

CHERP director Michael J. Fine, MD, MSc, received the 2011 John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement from the Society of General Internal Medicine at their national meeting.

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While VA Better at Treating Minorities, Key Outcomes Still Lag, 04/25/2011

While VA Better at Treating Minorities, Key Outcomes Still Lag

Research by VA investigators, published in Health Affairs, shows that despite the VA's progress in closing the care gap, racial disparities still exist in key outcomes. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/4/707.abstract

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Vantage Point Blog Features David Asch on Health Equity, 04/25/2011

VA's "Vantage Point" Features David Asch Commentary on Health Equity

A guest post by CHERP Director David Asch, MD, MBA, is featured on the home page of “Vantage Point: Dispatches from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.” http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/

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VA Better at Treating Minorities but Outcomes Still Lag, 04/25/2011

VA Better at Treating Minorities, But Outcomes Still Lag

Research by VA HSR&D investigators, published in the April 2011 edition of Health Affairs, shows that racial disparities in key outcomes persist, despite progress by VA in closing the care gap.

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National VA Blog Features David Asch Commentary on Health Equity, 04/25/2011

A guest post by CHERP Director David Asch, MD, MBA, is featured on the home page of “Vantage Point: Dispatches from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.” http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/

You may also read Dr. Asch’s comments here:

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National VA Blog Features David Asch Commentary on Health Equity, 04/25/2011

A guest post by CHERP Director David Asch, MD, MBA, is featured on the home page of “Vantage Point: Dispatches from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.” http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/

You may also read Dr. Asch’s comments here:

Health and health care are distributed unevenly in this country and minority populations often get less of both. Members of minority communities have higher rates of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension. They have higher rates of many cancers and those cancers often reveal themselves at later stages when they are harder to treat. A black male child born in 2006 will live on average to age 70, but a white male child born the same year will live to 76. A black female child will live to 77, but a white female child will live to 81. (more)

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Action Plan to Reduce Health Disparities: Department of Health and Human Services, 04/15/2011

On April 25, 2011, "Today's Topics in Health Disparities" webcast will examine the new Department of Health and Human Services' Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

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VA CHERP Investigator Lauren Broyles Receives AMERSA New Investigator Award, 04/08/2011

Lauren Matukaitis Broyles, PhD, RN, Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, received the 2010 New Investigator Award from the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA).

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