Morehouse School of Medicine News Center
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SATTC Director Awarded $3.5M Grant to Focus on Behavioral Health Disparities
OCTOBER 15, 2020 - Dawn Tyus, LPC, director and principal investigator of the Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center in the National Center for Primary Care, was recently awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop a center of excellence focused on behavioral health disparities among Black people.
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Joint Statement on the Integrity of Vaccine Trials and the Inclusion of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 - We, as representatives of the four historically Black medical schools in our nation, are committed to the inclusion of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) as we engage in research initiatives focused on the novel coronavirus, SARS CoV-2. The virus, COVID-19, disproportionately impacts the number of infections, complications, and deaths in our communities.
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Why We Need More Black Doctors - And How to Get There
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 - The Wall Street Journal features President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, in the most recent installment of its series "The Future of Everything."
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $26.4 Million Gift to Morehouse School of Medicine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) has been awarded $26.4 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies, a foundation created by entrepreneur and former New York Mayor and Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
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MSM Pipeline 'Gold Standard' for Increasing Physician Diversity
AUGUST 31, 2020 - "Diversity in the physician workforce has known benefits--including improved patient outcomes--and medical schools are working to create more of it. Morehouse School of Medicine is a gold standard in doing so," writes the American Medical Association's Brandon Murphy.
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Bank of America Delivers 20,000 Facemasks to MSM
AUGUST 25, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medicine recently received a donation of 20,000 facemasks from Bank of America, part of an initiative to donate personal protective equipment including 146,000 masks to 14 local organizations.
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Building a Health Culture in America
AUGUST 25, 2020 - President Emeritus Louis W. Sullivan, MD, chairman of the Sullivan Alliance, and US Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George H.W. Bush, co-authored this piece calling for rebuilding our public health infrastructure, from ratcheting up biomedical research to reversing the chronic underfunding of local, state, and federal health services.
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Faculty Member among Alabama's 'Women of the Century'
AUGUST 25, 2020 - The USA Today Network recently recognized Hadiyah-Nicole Green, PhD, assistant professor of surgery, as one of Alabama's "Women of the Century" alongside such luminaries as Rosa Parks, Harper Lee, Coretta Scott King, and Condeeleza Rice.
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, MSM Welcomes Its Largest Class
AUGUST 25, 2020 - In June, most HBCUs were racing against the clock to come up with a plan for what the fall semester would look like or rolling out and then revising strategies to safely re-open. But at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine, faculty, staff, and most future physicians were already back training, teaching and learning -- virtually and in person.
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Thoughts on a Lifetime of Leadership and Learning
AUGUST 25, 2020 - Congratulations to David Satcher, MD, on the publication of his latest book, "My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading" by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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