HIMSSCast: Health equity, caregiver diversity and COVID-19

HIMSSCast host Jonah Comstock welcomes Sheldon Fields, RN, PhD, a researcher, wellbeing plan analyst, educator and advocate. He serves as Affiliate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at Penn Point out, First Vice President at the National Black Nurses Affiliation, and founder and CEO of his individual consulting firm, the SDF Team. On today’s episode, they chat about some of the present-day wellbeing equity difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and how to beat them.

 

Talking factors:

• Dr. Fields’ heritage as a nurse and educational.
• The mission of the National Black Nurses’ Affiliation,
• How caregiver representation aligns with care equity.
• Evaluating the COVID-19 pandemic with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
• How pandemics can illuminate wellbeing disparities.
• The heritage of professional medical atrocities in the U.S., and its aftereffects.
• Is vaccine hesitancy as huge an difficulty as vaccine entry?
• How minority nursing associations can support develop vaccine entry.
• Well being equity past the pandemic – including professional medical research.
• How the NIH’s All of Us initiative has continued throughout the pandemic.

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The National Black Nurses Affiliation

Dr. Fields’ PSU College Page

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