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  • 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…

  • 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”…

  • 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…

  • Minority Health Month: COVID19 Race and Ethnicity Data

    April 23, 2020

    April is Minority Health Month, and each Wednesday this month MUSM diversity deans are going to bring you a weekly message on a topic related to minority health. Since the coronavirus/COVID-19 has changed all our lives in a way that we never could have imagined, it seems that is a reasonable place to start. States…

  • Minority Health Month: COVID19 – Wearing Face Coverings in Public

    April 23, 2020

    April is Minority Health Month, and each Wednesday this month your diversity deans are going to bring you a weekly message on a topic related to minority health. This week’s topic is COV-19: Wearing Face Coverings in Public As the CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United…

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