COVID-19 and the Present and Future of Black Communities: The Role of Black Physicians, Engineers, and Scientists Proceedings of a Workshop (2021) / Chapter Skim
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5 Community Response and Community Resilience
5 Community Response and Community Resilience
Pages 45-56
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. • Nurses are on the front lines, but, unlike the military going into a war zone, often lack the personal protective equipment and other protections they need to survive (Dr.
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. The final panel of the workshop was organized to accomplish two objectives: to explore ongoing and new ideas for addressing COVID-19 in the Black community and to examine the role of Black doctors, scientists, and engineers in partnering with others to generate community response and community resilience.
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in the United States, about 7.8 percent of whom are African American. The Black Nurses Association represents RNs, licensed practical nurses, and nursing students and has served as the voice for African American nurses for 50 years.
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They have also collaborated with other nursing organizations, including the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations. Early on, they worked together on a paper on COVID-19 from a nursing perspective.2 They work with many other groups, including the National M edical Association, Rainbow Coalition, National Lawyers Association, and National Council of Negro Women, among others.
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The inaugural symposium in 2012 was highlighted by a keynote presentation by civil rights attorney Fred Gray; the most recent symposium featured a keynote by journalist and educator Linda Villarosa.3 During these symposia, engineers share their designs and approaches to eliminate disparities, such as screening tools and technologies that can be used in low-resource settings.
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A cross-generational call has been issued through the Grand Challenges Scholars Program and Frontiers of Education Communities.5 The charge is to collectively brainstorm on innovative engineering approaches to COVID-19 and its consequences. Examples include a paper-based COVID-19 test for at-home diagnostics, self-disinfecting N95 masks, wearable sensors for monitoring, and handless door openers.
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Related to housing, as noted earlier, people in densely populated areas may find it more difficult to practice prevention measures such as social distancing. She stressed the need for accurate data that can drill down to the county, zip code, and neighborhood levels.
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A partnership between MSM, the Google Foundation, and the CDC Foundation is directly addressing the lack of meaningful data. The partners will build a comprehensive, public-facing data platform; establish a health equity task force and data consortium to work to ensure standardization of COVD-19 data at the national, state, and local levels; and develop evidence-based practices for socioculturally responsive resources to provide technical assistance to local and state health organizations to improve their COVID-19 response.
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Dr. Barabino noted engineers are being trained to understand patient needs by talking directly with them before designing technologies.
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She urged a push on policy makers to create publicly owned networks to extend broadband to all communities. Other countries, a participant noted, have provided a universal basic income for workers to stay home while they pay for their needs.
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Given this understanding, she continued, "As scientists, we need to make decisions that are evidence based. We are going to be able to provide good data to affirm the differences, but then the data has to be used to create interventions." She invited workshop participants to request data and to create partnerships at the national, state, and local levels, recognizing that confounding factors can make each community's situation unique.
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2017. Developing a framework for integrating health equity into the learning health system.
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