Learner Resources

⮚• The Congressional District Health Dashboard, developed by the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is now live! The Dashboard will equip users with first-of-its-kind data on health and the conditions that affect health in every congressional district across the country. This new Dashboard site builds on the experience creating and managing the City Health Dashboard and provides important data on health and equity, but now calculated to the congressional district level. 

•  US Preventive Health Task Force Recommendations:  enter facts about your population of interest to identify elevated risks, recommendations and relevant screening forms: https://uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/ 

⮚ Worcester Regional Research Bureau almanac of facts and figures about the city of Worcester, reports and  resources http://www.wrrb.org/resources-and-related-links/ 

⮚ Worcester Community Health Improvement Plan/ Community Health Assessment provide access to recent  information about our local public health planning processes and community-identified priorities:  http://healthycentralma.com/ 

⮚ Boston Area Research Initiative’s Boston Data Portal includes interactive mapping features  https://www.northeastern.edu/csshresearch/bostonarearesearchinitiative/boston-data-portal/

 ⮚ MA Public Health Association: https://mapublichealth.org/ is a great source of info about advocacy in our state. ⮚ MA Environmental Public Health Toolkit with tracking data: https://matracking.ehs.state.ma.us/ 

⮚ The Kaiser Family Foundation has an interactive tool for state reports on health coverage, access,  and costs. https://www.kff.org/statedata/custom-state-report/ 

⮚ Centers for Disease Control: Data and Statistics by topic and with links to tools and other resources:  https://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/ 

⮚ Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility searchable neighborhood-level data, reports  and articles. https://www.opportunityinsights.org  

⮚ US Census American Fact Finder is an easy way to get lots of data by zip code, city, state, etc:  https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

⮚ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data & Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/

⮚ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Use Data Files: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ftp_data.htm

⮚ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Disability & Health: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/aboutus.html

⮚ CHNA.org / Community Commons: http://www.communitycommons.org/chna/

⮚  Data.gov:  http://www.data.gov/

⮚  Emory University:  https://whscldatablog.wordpress.com/category/public-access-data/

⮚  National Institutes of Health (NIH): https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/ 

⮚  Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU): https://www.ohsu.edu/

⮚ Partners in Information Access for Public Health Workforce: https://healthdata.gov/dataset/Partners-in-Information-Access-for-the-Public-Heal/v3ib-u4vn

⮚  Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM): http://www.sgim.org/communities/research/dataset-compendium/public-datasets-description

⮚ Tulane University: http://libguides.tulane.edu/DataSets

⮚  University of California San Francisco (UCSF): https://accelerate.ucsf.edu/research/celdac

⮚  University of Rochester: http://libguides.urmc.rochester.edu/content.php?pid=466669&sid=4271250

⮚  US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): https://www.hhs.gov/

⮚ US National Library of Medicine:  https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/datasites.html

⮚ National Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT):  http://ephtracking.cdc.gov/showHome.action

⮚  County Health Rankings: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/communityhealth

⮚ Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2483544/#:~:text=The%20Community%20Health%20Status%20Indicators,causes%20of%20death%2C%20environmental%20health%2C

⮚ MA Environmental Public Health Tracking (MA EPHT):  https://matracking.ehs.state.ma.us/

⮚ MassCHIP Community Health Profiles: MassCHIP: https://mahealthfunds.org/community-health-improvement-planning-chip-processes/ 

⮚ Office of Data Management and Outcomes Assessment: http://www.mass.gov/dph/dmoa

⮚ Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS): http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/

⮚  United States Census Bureau’s FactFinder:  https://www.census.gov/library/publications/time-series/cff.html

⮚ Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Data Navigator: https://data.cms.gov/

Guiding Principles for Civic Advocacy by Medical Students and Prospective Applicants, AAMC 2020

This document was created by the Group on Student Affairs and is intended to aid both leaners and institutions in considering how to engage in and support student advocacy to eliminate police brutality and systemic racism and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. All content reflects the views of the Group on Student Affairs and does not reflect the official position or policy of the Association of American Medical Colleges unless clearly specified. 

AAMC Policy and Advocacy

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) works with policymakers and other leaders to advance policy priorities that strengthen the nation’s health and well-being.  Through policies that affect health care delivery, research, education, health equity, and more, the federal government is a key partner in sustaining the vitality of the nation’s academic medicine ecosystem, which is essential to improving the health of all.

UMass Chan Public Health and Community Advocacy FB Group

Sign up here to share upcoming local and online events relevant to public health and community advocacy. 

  Massachusetts Public Health Association’s Healthy Equity Policy Framework  includes “Definitions of Commonly Used Terms”  which draws from the National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, and Boston Public Health Commission. 

The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative (MHAC) developed an Inclusive Communities Toolkit to help communities engaged in the age- and dementia friendly movement, centering principles of access, equity and inclusion in their work.  Includes summary stats, and healthy aging "crosswalk" tools based on 8 age- and dementia-friendly domains 

Collaboratory Community Engagement Database - please consider adding your community-engaged activities to our database to help us measure impact https://he.cecollaboratory.com/umms 

Groups are encouraged to assign 1 student to list their community-engaged activity in Collaboratory, the new software for tracking the impact of community-engaged activities at UMass Chan Medical School. 

• To learn how to use this software and find a step-by-step document for listing an activity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--dvFfTqRuJOP_21C7_VXpyhA4neZcgbeXJTNARsmYE/edit?usp=sharing 

• For a general overview and steps on using Collaboratory:  https://rise.articulate.com/share/7MpCMmQyxeC4cz2chZr8kT7RBV3BTkjV 

Public Health Communication Collaborative Plain Language Guide

Are you using plain language best practices to convey health messages to public audiences?  Here's a handy guide with useful reference links.  The Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC) creates and amplifies tools, resources, and learning opportunities for communicators designed to address public health issues, build public confidence, and identify and counter misinformation. Initially formed in August 2020 to provide science-based messaging resources on the COVID-19 pandemic, today PHCC supports communicators on a range of timely issues across the field of public health—working toward a world where everyone has access to the information they need to make good decisions about their health. As a collaborative, PHCC draws on the expertise, insights, and on-the-ground knowledge of its partner network and public health leaders. Four Organizing Partners steer the collaborative: CDC Foundation, the de Beaumont Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, and Trust for America’s Health. 

Population Medicine, Population Health, and Population Health Management: Strategies That Meet Society's Health Needs - PMC (nih.gov) 

Core Competencies for Interprofessional Practice  http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/IPEC-2016-Updated-Core-Competencies-Report.pdf 

in development

The Gold Humanism Honor Society is collecting examples of humanism in medicine throughout the curriculum. If you would like to have the opportunity to share and publish your work on this reflection through social media, our blogs, or other forums. This is optional in addition to the submission for credit for the clerkship:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvYOwHT45Ty78Ykect7Ti7cY64QAQw8w0cM8xSEjHKZS32vw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Video Recordings 2022

Alexis Walls- Advocacy for Community Health 

Dr. Castiel Recording

Last year's clerkship group presentations: 

Accountable Care in the Massachusetts Medicaid program (MassHealth): An Introduction with a Focus on Health Equity:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xNPeN0Wwxx54WquQap0M3dgHwREl_PjR/view?usp=sharing

Addressing the Digital Divide in the BeHealthy Partnership (Medicaid ACO) Population:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzCGzEablNC7DOTxm33ZOSmODxfDdOu9/view?usp=sharing

Advocacy and Health Equity for LGBTQIA+ Communities:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v69JD7k4Jiv8trcxb3oSoJ2yAOAVR6eR/view?usp=sharing

Assessment & Implementation of Mental Health Prevention Education Resources and Services – WoW Bus:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-Vg7S3g0cMVBemhzQqDz5LzVI74g_vZ/view?usp=sharing

Barre Biodome:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knFNwMPgq8GJjRPZ0nZ4nLvjUYeV9H-l/view?usp=sharing

Caring for the Uninsured and Under-resourced:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xdzqkaEqmdmrmcN2GSEyp9LL85Nk3xIY/view?usp=sharing

Coming Home: Exploring the Challenges of Community Reentry and Health Equity for Criminal Justice Involved Populations:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-dpQIcC8lFrlCixzoGtruyjXDK9YuTFu/view?usp=sharing

Community CPR: Saving Lives is All in Your Hands!:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vg61c_lalcIpX3_xR3DZ4jvZwAPvBEBk/view?usp=sharing

Confronting Telehealth Equity on Rural Outer Cape Cod:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13TAjgVAfvPukyUT7O89jqRoLVzg1bQ0I/view?usp=sharing

Developing a Fall Reduction Program for Armbrook Village Residents with Dementia:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rTGaphW3m2w6sfRXeMmK3WITCvInkNh/view?usp=sharing

Diameter of a Bullet: Six Degrees of Separation of Gun Violence:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ZGCyLsmPJuhh5SI1inGnSOdtLpVUf28/view?usp=sharing

Elder Climate Action MA:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L7QB5GaUnUCB_F0p2PGTl9pVPbZiRYbb/view?usp=sharing

Examining Racism as a Public Health Crisis:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1teY7bRB4e7vjGmSOTbTvL8xjPa5n58B5/view?usp=sharing

Geriatrics: Fall Risk and Prevention for Older Adults:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wEIUrugMwzZta6_PA0C5ygdiSHQvA5sk/view?usp=sharing

Healing Springfield: Promoting Physical and Mental Health Through Urban Greening:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f3AXEsI-NH_cOL3MXSoPC6R6MEQxdiYG/view?usp=sharing

HIV in Massachusetts:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1lbxmwCGd_Lp2KEVPJ4JYIOj0qciMu6/view?usp=sharing

Identifying Education & Training Needs Within the Disconnected Youth Population on Martha’s Vineyard:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sOYvgV6ydD15R-B2wbTRUURknUCjqBWT/view?usp=sharing

Improving health and medication literacy among patients with Limited English Proficiency at the Family Health Center of Worcester:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nmOtQvWV9HDobQBaMJUw0hblnvXmrAl7/view?usp=sharing

Injury Prevention IS Public Health (Worcester DPH & UMMHC Injury Prevention Program):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11vjCXHZrad3o5HpwzGRXRknp2gVzPcqU/view?usp=sharing

Introduction to Veterans'/Military Health Issues:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VQ_SBoVmnxWev50yepwLQO4wEjnnxyDy/view?usp=sharing

Language Access and Patient Encounters:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Gifqg8u8VLUzrXqCcV-DGcxzCvTrZyc/view?usp=sharing

Living with a Disability:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r2ha83RHFjaZFmDRCcOPSlQq9wDRVte-/view?usp=sharing

LUV (Listening to Unheard Voices): Making Opioid Interventions More Effective by Humanizing Addiction:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MINZDPmrYmf1nc7sFTW1aXnPsPOtIiL6/view?usp=sharing

Mason Square Neighborhood: Addressing Lack of Nutrition Education through Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease – MLK Jr Family :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E88yOYAVZeco4HLUoipLSDcm9Oc3DgSw/view?usp=sharing

Mete Tèt Nou Ansanm (Putting Our Heads Together): UMMS Dominican Republic Batey Health Initiative (DR BHI):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eyEYpHoMZ4pLpv1s9242QnE2QXVmdBtl/view?usp=sharing

Moving Worcester: Meeting Worcester’s Leaders in Physical Activity Promotion:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16TS3ZExvQQ-T19315GpECyGt7j6hOCzf/view?usp=sharing

Oral Health in Underserved Populations – More Important Than You Think!:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15-i3ReuH2oERTD7n2gmNrat-CzQ_NMEt/view?usp=sharing

Parenting & Family Stability:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/193sQ86cOuB5njqT4ExSa9wTo0PsAOeYI/view?usp=sharing

Prehospital Care and Disaster Management:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13PgKstVt9N2f_CNs--isOYp3r7CTIzax/view?usp=sharing

Providing Compassionate Care to Worcester's Homeless Population:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkTCr1xc37nmd-QnTmc58qUqkrksCLQg/view?usp=sharing

Rural Harm Reduction: Supporting Drug User Health through Syringe Services and Methadone Access – Tapestry Health:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FRekcjZ0cnXmVRVw2rF3S2HP1-AaGowk/view?usp=sharing

Rural Transportation in  the Quaboag Valley:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qt4qconq9iKyeyPkT4PlCitf3Ar_CrhG/view?usp=sharing

See It My Way: The VIPs (visually impaired persons) of Worcester County:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ze4ecdC7iBvLI3i-IabOQV2e6647Uq9f/view?usp=sharing

Seeking Refuge During a Pandemic: Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health in Lowell, MA:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hy7jlsQVTyTsc1shFtbcceqaVutaqV6E/view?usp=sharing

The Intersection of Substance Use and Mental Health for Youth and Young Adults – Quaboag Hills SUA:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ExxXShFCO0LO3O1OE1bqOikmMsHbhNs-/view?usp=sharing

Understanding and addressing root causes of vaccine hesitancy among LatinX youth in Lawrence:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fDShUZ6nL5Z79JWJYICgxNgnRS2b06J6/view?usp=sharing

Urban Neighborhoods: Addressing Food Insecurity and Access to Physical Activities – Square One:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10oweozC2YOFDYPWUpHPjCFPuv2Hh5-JF/view?usp=sharing

Worcester Healthy Baby Collaborative Breastfeeding and Safe Sleep Project:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UqmiSEXpIyU-po5z-iflMyJMAhA7YqBv/view?usp=sharing