Resources for faculty, staff, and administrators

  • Communities of Color and Immigrants
  • Webinar (recording): Pandemia: “The World We Live In Is a House on Fire: Latinx Health and COVID-19” by Latino Commission on AIDS (2020), available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGNHiMvkNk&feature=youtu.be (NOTE: Various peer-reviewed and evidence-based studies are cited in this webinar.)
  • Article (Peer-reviewed): Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations by T. Andrasfay and N. Goldman (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2021), available at https://www.pnas.org/content/118/5/e2014746118 (NOTE: This article provides evidence that Black and Latinx populations have been negatively impacted by the COVID pandemic. It can serve as a helpful source to cite in scientific articles and grant proposals, as well as administrative planning documents.)
  • White Paper (from health care corporation): Shifting Trends in Vaccine Hesitancy Greater Divergence in Attitudes, Growing Reticence Among Minorities (CVS Health, February 2021), available at https://payorsolutions.cvshealth.com/sites/default/files/cvs-health-payor-solutions-white-paper-shifting-trends-vaccine-hesitancy.pdf .
  • Article (peer-reviewed): Experiences of Latinx Individuals Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Qualitative Study by L. Cervantes, M. Martin, M. Frank, et al. (JAMA Network Open. 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2777402 .
  • Article (governmental): Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Incidence by Age, Sex, and Period Among Persons Aged <25 Years — 16 U.S. Jurisdictions, January 1–December 31, 2020 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7011e1.htm?s_cid=mm7011e1_w . (NOTE: This research study contains analysis of one year’s worth of data on the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S..)