PH Insights
CommonSpirit Health leaders share their views and guidance on a range of population health topics.
COVID-19 has left no community untouched. But its disproportionate impact on our most vulnerable populations — particularly communities of color — is well documented. Sadly, this holds true across the nation and in California, where...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put serious demands on our children – stay away from friends, stay away from school and activities, stay away from grandparents. Attend classes online (and actually learn!). And in too many...
For J. Bianca Roberts, MD, Family Medicine/Occupational Health and Walk-In Clinic Department Chair at Mercy Medical Group (MMG), Dignity Health, ensuring that the most vulnerable members of her community receive the COVID-19 vaccine is a...
Flash back to a little over a year ago. Across the country, communities were experiencing peaks in the first wave of COVID infections. The panacea? A vaccine, but the timeline for development and distribution was still...
On Tuesday, April 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jointly announced a recommendation to pause administration of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine as it...
As unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 cases are being reported throughout the U.S., minority communities, which tend to be communities of color…
As COVID-19 vaccination ramps up across the U.S., many people are eager for their turn to get vaccinated so they can safely reclaim some normalcy in their lives. Yet in parallel with this anticipation, an...
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is still in its beginning phases, yet already, there have been countless news stories about vaccine hesitancy among communities of color. Yes, vaccine hesitancy is certainly real — and understandable. First,...
The past year has been one of the most trying of our lives. As a health care professional, I’ve witnessed up close the deadliness of COVID-19 and the tireless efforts of my colleagues to fight...
As the CDC continues to promote the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, many Americans continue to be hesitant to receive the vaccine.…