Health Equity Monday 8: COVID and RSV Vaccine Update & Men Dying At Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths

August 2023 Episode

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Highlights from this episode:

1. COVID and RSV Vaccine update 
2. Men Dying at Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths Than Women
3. Lack of diversity in clinical trials

Links from Health Equity Monday 8

In this month’s episode of Health Equity Mondays (HEM), with co-hosts Jasmine Leonard aka Health Equity Jazz, MPH and Omari Richins, MPH, we talk about:
– COVID and RSV Vaccine update 
– Men Dying at Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths Than Women

Health Equity Jazz Newsletter: https://www.healthequityjazz.beehiiv.com 
The Public Health Millennial Email Blast: https://thephmillennial.com/signup/

Chapters:
@0:00 Episode Start
@0:58 Check ins
@2:47 Covid19 and RSV Vaccine into this fall
@13:28 Promo break
@15:08 Overdose deaths by gender
@21:20 Commentary
@24:41 Equity in Action
@27:24 Ending commentary


COVID & RSV Vaccine Updates
https://www.nytimes.com/article/flu-covid-rsv-vaccines.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-cases-hospitalizations-are-rising-virus-surging-rcna97753

Men Dying at Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths Than Women
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-023-01601-8#Sec6
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/men-died-overdose-2-3-times-greater-rate-women-us-2020-2021


Health Equity in Action (Black representation in Clinical Trials)
https://www.aamc.org/news/clinical-trials-seek-fix-their-lack-racial-mix
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2780381#zld210093r1
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2789666
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00069-2/fulltext



HEJ Links:
HEM: https://www.healthequityjazz.com/HEM 
Merch: https://www.healthequityjazz.com/merch 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healthequityjazz 
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/healthequitypro 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedIn.com/in/healthequityjazz   

The Public Health Millennial on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thephmillennial/
Omari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omari-richins-mph/
Omari on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thephmillennial/

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