2020 NIH Rural Health Seminar: Challenges in the Era of COVID-19
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About this event
About the Seminar: Today, approximately 20% of the U.S. population about 60 million people live in rural areas, which make up 97% of the land area in the United States. People living in rural America have less access to health care and are more likely than residents of urban areas to die from chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory disease. Moreover, long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put many rural residents at increased risk of getting COVID-19. The rural/urban inequities in health and health care warrant more rigorous and innovative scientific research to improve testing, contact tracing, and future vaccination for rural Americans. This seminar will explore the impact of the COVID-19 on rural populations, systems and workforce issues and community engagement to respond to the pandemic.
1:00 – 1:05 p.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Priscah Mujuru, DrPH, MPH, RN, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH
Xinzhi Zhang, MD, PhD, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH
1:05 – 1:55 p.m.
Keynote Address
Remarks and Introduction: Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable MD, Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH
Keynote Address: Marshall Bloom, MD, Associate Director for Science Management, Rocky Mountain Laboratories and Chief of the Biology of Vector-Borne Viruses Section, Hamilton Montana Labs, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
1:55 – 2:10 p.m.
Tom Morris, MPA, Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration
2:10 – 3:20 p.m.
Session 1: Rural Population Impact and Response in the Time of COVID-19
Moderator: Joni Rutter, PhD, Deputy Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH
Speakers:
Brenda Eskenazi, MA, PhD, University of California Berkeley
COVID-19 and its Impact on the Health of Californian Farmworkers and Their Families
Randall Akee, PhD, University of California Los Angeles
Social and Economic Correlates of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander COVID-19 Rates in Hawaii and the Continental U.S.
Cathleen Willging, PhD, University of New Mexico
Elucidating Inequities under COVID-19: Real-Time Research into the Wellbeing of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Rural New Mexico
Early Stage Investigator talks:
Thomas Chávez PhD, University of New Mexico
UndocuResearch: Health and Wellbeing Among Undocumented Youth in New Mexico
Vincent Werito (Diné) PhD, University of New Mexico
Defining Community Wellbeing Through Community Engaged Research with Three Navajo Communities
3:20 – 3:30 p.m.
BREAK
3:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Session 2: Researchers and Community Partners respond to the Challenges of COVID-19
Moderator: Monica Webb Hooper, PhD, Deputy Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH
Speakers:
Stacy Rasmus, PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Research in Rural Alaska in a Pandemic: Engaging Communities
Alice Ammerman, DrPH, University of North Carolina
Interventions to Address Job Loss and Food Security in Rural Communities During COVID
Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD, Tulane University
Research and Community Collaboration in the Time of COVID: The Bogalusa Experience
Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, University of North Carolina & Mysha Wynn, MA, Founder and Executive Director of Project Momentum, Inc.
Project GRACE: Rural Partnerships in Action
Project GRACE: Rural Partnerships in Action
4:45 – 5:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Griffin Rodgers, MD, MACP, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
URL to NIH VideoCast: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=38788
URL to Rural Health Seminar Webpage: https://nimhd.nih.gov/news-events/conferences-events/rural-health.html
Question Inbox: RuralHealthDay@NIH.gov
Co-Sponsoring NIH Institutes and Centers:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Planning Committee:
Priscah Mujuru Dr.PH., M.P.H., R.N. NIMHD, Co-Chair
Xinzhi Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. NCATS, Co-Chair
Ligia Artiles, M.A. NIMHD
Rick Berzon, Dr.PH., P.A. NIMHD
Dorothy Castille, Ph.D. NIMHD
Brandin DeChabert, B.A. NIDA
Qi Duan, Ph.D. NIBIB
Minnjuan Flournoy-Floyd, Ph.D. NIDA
Sai Majii, Ph.D. NICHD
Janki Patel, M.B.A. NIMHD
Melissa Green Parker, Ph.D. NIH OD
Antoinette Percy-Laurry, Dr.PH., M.SP.H. NCI
Antonello Punturieri, M.D., Ph.D. NHLBI
Rebekah Rasooly, Ph.D. NINR
Rob Rivers, Ph.D. NIDDK
Darien Weatherspoon, D.D.S., M.P.H. NIDCR
Sallie Weaver, Ph.D., M.H.S. NCI
Acknowledgements: The NIH Rural Health Interest Workgroup & the NIH-HHS Rural Health Task Force Representatives Nathan Stinson MD, PhD, NIMHD, and Shobha Srinivasan, PhD, NCI.
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