What is a Food Desert?

August 11, 2020

The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center is housed within the School of Medicine and is dedicated to empowering rural communities to improve access and effectiveness of health care. The Center accomplishes this mission by offering research, collaboration, and training opportunities. Mercer University School of Medicine’s Summer Student Research Scholars program matches students with faculty throughout…

COVID19 Case Rates per County

June 11, 2020

What is on these maps? On these colored maps, you can see the case rates per 1,000 residents. This means that we have calculated how many confirmed cases there are per 1,000 residents. This allows us to compare the urban areas with rural areas while taking into account their population. The darker the orange…

Superhumans VS the CoVillain

May 20, 2020

Greetings, superheroes! I know the last few months may have been confusing and scary. With school getting moved online, not seeing your friends, always staying at home, not getting to hug your grandparents – none of it makes sense, and you really wish things were back to normal, I bet. I know that I do.…

COVID: Understanding Health Information

May 6, 2020

As the crisis with COVID continues, it is important that we have high-quality health information that we can understand and use to make decisions about our health. The coronavirus outbreak has created a situation with new and old instructions on how to be safe that can be quite complex. The instructions to “wash your hands”…

COVID-19 Antibody Testing

April 30, 2020

The Medical Student Minute for the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center Welcome to the Medical Student Minute! We are so glad you’re here. Through this forum, Mercer School of Medicine students will provide informational updates on some hot topics in the world of public health, medicine, and rural health. This is not medical advice. Have…

Intersectionality and COVID19

April 28, 2020

This final week of Minority Health Month, let’s focus on the concept of intersectionality and the ways in which we see it playing out with COVID-19. Intersectionality focuses on the ways in which we are all made of multiple identities – some of which place us at increased risk for health inequities, and others that…