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6/05/2020—Each week, officials with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health host a press conference to update the community of the latest conditions of the coronavirus pandemic.

Institute Scholar, Heidi Gullett, MD, MPH, often speaks about the virus and the issues facing our nation. On June 5th, Dr. Gullett spoke about the other pandemic facing our nation: racism.

When asked about the conference, Dr. Gullett said, "The regular press briefings due to COVID-19 have also provided an opportunity to discuss our long-standing collaborative equity work to eliminate structural racism in greater Cleveland. This platform has provided a chance to explain the intersection of these two crises and their impact on our community. Immediately after George Floyd's death, I felt moved to speak from the heart about my own perspective transformation journey of confronting my own privilege."

Bold Ideas

• 9/18/2020—Chris D'Adamo, PhD, Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and program director at the Institute for Integrative Health, was interviewed by WTOP News about the publication SpiceMyPlate program at Baltimore's Cristo Rey Jesuit High School.
• 9/1/2020—Institute program team's paper was accepted for publication featuring the SpiceMyPlate program titled "The addition of spices and herbs to vegetables in the National School Lunch Program increased vegetable intake at an urban, economically-undeserved, and predominantly African-American high school."
  
• 9/1/2020— InVIVO Planetary Health and the Institute publish paper in Challenges "Project Earthrise: Inspiring Creativity, Kindness, and Imagination in Planetary Health."
• 7/07/2020—Visiting Visionary Rebecca Etz, PhD, featured in a new article discussing the layoffs of primary care as things return to pre-COVID pay
• 7/05/2020—Institute friend, Mohammad Gharipour, PhD, and colleague, Caitlin DeClarcq, PhD, launches a YouTube channel to discuss, Epidemic Urbanism: Reflections on History, the history of illnesses and epidemics on urban environments.
• 6/28/2020—Scholar Judy Rollins, PhD, RN, co-authors paper in the Journal of Child and Family Studies detailing project for empathetic art.
• 6/10/2020—Paper Co-Authored by Visiting Visionary, Rebecca Etz, PhD, Discussing the 1966 Report, Health is a Community Affair
• 6/10/2020—What is the State of Primary Care During COVID-19?
• 5/20/2020—Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Published First Quarterly Newsletter
• 4/30/2020—Institute Nature Sacred Fellow, Denise Shanté Brown, MA, publishes, Check-ins for Connection & Care: A Growing, Collaborative List of Questions and Prompts to Help Hold Space
• 4/23/2020—Physician, Harvey Fineberg, calls for collective health and economic strategies in order to crush the curve
• 4/05/2020—Institute Scholar, Claudia Witt, MD, MBA, Co-Authors Overview of CAM for the Treatment of COVID-19
• 4/02/2020—Dr. D'Adamo Weighs in on Elderberry Debate
• 4/01/2020—Institute Scholar, Steven Woolf, MD, MPH, Provides a New Perspective on Coronavirus
• 3/20/2020—Social Distancing: What You're Feeling is Grief
• 11/04/2019—The Institute helps UM School of Medicine Introduce a new Requirement: Culinary Medicine
• 10/01/2019— Institute Mission Thrive Summer program featured in PM Magazine by Morgan State University.

Inspiring Stories

• 6/11/2020—Harvard University Study says volunteering could help us live longer
• 5/11/2020—Maryland Food Bank continues to serve amid surging demand and squeezed supply chain
• 5/08/2020—Community school, tech groups join forces to set up free WIFI networks in Sandtown, Baltimore
• 5/07/2020—Britain's Best Gardening Couple Outdo Themselves with Spring Spectacular After Spending Lockdown Tending to Oasis
• 5/06/2020—UMB Partners with Arrabers to Distribute Food
• 5/04/2020—The Franciscan Center of Baltimore has distributed 650 masks to the elderly men and women experiencing homelessness, and construction workers without masks
• 5/04/2020—Anonymous Donor Gives $1 Million Gift to Hospital Staff to be Divided Among Every Single Employee
• 4/28/2020—As a "green stimulus," Pakistan set virus-idled to work planting trees
  
• 4/23/2020—Mayor Young Announces Multi-Million Dollar Aid Packages to Baltimore's Small Businesses
• 4/15/2020—Food Distribution Program Grows to Meet "Huge Demand"
• 4/13/2020—Under Armour Supplies Much-Needed Face Masks for JHHS
• 4/10/2020—Himalayan Mountaintops Visible for First Time in 30 Years as Air Pollution Continues to Plummet in India
• 2/29/2020—Mission Thrive Team Wins Best Raw Dish at Fresh at the Avenue 4th Anniversary and Live Kale Cook-Off