Tag: Health
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Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Gingerbread
Join in a fresh new activity at the International District Library! Kids and families will learn about a different locally grown food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves. The theme for December is spicy, delicious gingerbread!
This Month’s Book: The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone. This Month’s Recipe: Gingerbread with fresh ginger
Registration is limited! Just a few seats available. Register HERE to snag your spot!
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Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Pumpkins
Join in a fresh new activity at the International District Library! Kids and families will learn about a different locally grown food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves!
October’s theme is pumpkins! This Month’s Book: Pumpkins by Ken Robbins. This Month’s Recipe: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Registration is limited! Just a few seats available. Register HERE to snag your spot!
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Black Lives, Black Lungs film screening
Join NMACT for a free screening of the film Black Lives, Black Lungs: Journey of a Stolen Leaf. The film will be followed by a panel discussion on racism in tobacco marketing and public health.
“Black Lives, Black Lungs: The Journey of a Stolen Leaf unravels the tobacco industry’s forward-looking strategy of protecting profits, subverting regulations, and maintaining influence through the promotion of e-cigarettes to hook a new generation to nicotine. The panel discussion will feature topics of racism within commercial tobacco marketing, the lasting health and economic impacts on communities, and discussion of policy initiatives working to address health equity in New Mexico.”
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New to Albuquerque: Dr. Lauri Andress, UNM
This week on the blog, NMBLC features the first in the “Newcomer Spotlight” series with Dr. Lauri Andress, Associate Dean for the College of Population Health at UNM. The profile “New to Town: Dr. Lauri Andress, UNM” first appeared in the September 2023 edition of NMBLC’s monthly newspaper, the UpLift Chronicles.
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The following piece was written by Shannon Moreau.
New to Town: Dr. Lauri Andress, UNM
Dr. Lauri Andress joined UNM this summer as Associate Dean for the College of Population Health, relocating from Birmingham, Alabama. Welcome to Albuquerque, Dr. Andress!
Below is our Q&A. Note: Answers have been edited for length.
What brought you to Albuquerque?
The opportunity to work in a collaborative manner to support Dean Tracie Collins as she builds the UNM College of Population Health. It is a positive, natural step of progression in my career.
What are you excited to bring to your new position?
A unique background in politics and community organizing that helped me to establish a set of tools that train health practitioners to understand that health starts with taking care of oppressed populations before they enter the healthcare system. This means we work on the non-medical determinants of health; [things like] voting rights, jobs, housing, wealth, the right to high-quality, affordable food sources, and early childhood education policies to support brain development and a high-quality life as an adult, or even higher levels of education, free from debt.
The pandemic’s over, right? How do we continue to increase vaccine confidence?
The pandemic is not over, and we should continue to be vigilant. Lack of confidence in the vaccine may be only one reason that groups did not get immunized. But we need to understand their lived experiences. Research demonstrated that inequities in our systems and institutions contributed to reasons that underrepresented groups did not get the vaccine. These inequities are related to…no transportation, inconvenient clinic locations and hours, language barriers, fear of loss of wages or employment to support the household.
Dr. Lauri Andress of UNM next to statue of Rosa Parks in downtown Montgomery Alabama What are some ways to increase access to care?
This is not the answer you want or perhaps expect. Increasing access to healthcare means we have failed, and people are sick or dying. It is more ethical and effective to work on those non-medical determinants of health so that people do not need [healthcare]… Both the law and healthcare are not positive services or practices and, in fact, the law and healthcare appear on the scene when society has sunk to a low point. Therefore, the law and healthcare are products and services that are to be consumed infrequently, for short periods of time, and in small quantities. To be subjected to poor health and illness and the need for healthcare because a group has suffered from the historical denial of resources and opportunities is one of the biggest injustices in our society. We should address societal inequities up front before poor health occurs, and this is where I choose to spend my time—focusing on non-medical determinants of health.
“To be subjected to poor health… and the need for healthcare because a group has suffered from the historical denial of resources and opportunities is one of the biggest injustices in our society.”
— Dr. Lauri Andress, UNMPress
Racism in Healthcare – UNM
http://news.unm.edu/news/racism-in-healthcare
UNM College of Population Health
https://hsc.unm.edu/population-health/about/
Dr. Andress Bio – UNM
https://hsc.unm.edu/directory/andress-lauri.html
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Sister Doula
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of Sister Doula, a film about the Black maternal health and infant mortality crisis. Panel Discussion to immediately follow screening.
“Black babies die at 5 times the rate of white babies. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles this crisis head-on, fighting to save Black babies by offering alternatives to the US healthcare system that surveils, criminalizes, and harms Black families. Mama Hakima is equal parts unapologetic truth-teller and wise-compassionate mentor. This is the story of the birth doulas she has mentored, who advocate for Black birthing people and work toward a future where all people will have equal access to thrive in pregnancy, birth, and beyond.”
Register HERE
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Alpha Phi Alpha Blood Drive
Donate life-giving blood at the Bloodmobile at New Hope Gospel church this Saturday morning!
To schedule an appointment, scan the QR code on the flyer, click the link to the right, or call 505-246-1452.
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Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club
Join in a fresh new activity at the International District Library! Kids and families will learn about a different locally grown food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves!
Registration is limited! Just ten seats available. Register HERE to snag your spot!
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Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club
Join in a fresh new activity at the International District Library! Kids and families will learn about a different locally grown food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves!
June features carrots, and participants will prepare a carrot smoothie.
Registration is limited! Just six seats left when this event was posted. Register HERE to snag your spot!
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Juneteenth Black Embodied Healing Space
FREE Juneteenth Black Embodied Healing Space at Juneteenth! This space is intentionally curated for Black bodies where women, femmes, QT Black bodied, and disabled folx are centered.
During the 5-hour embodied space, somatic treatments will be offered and supportive dialogue fostered. We know the importance of our Black youth to have safe(r) healing space(s), but for this particular event, participants must be 18 years (by June 17th) and older. Participants will receive “love bundles” for body, mind and spirit. Space is limited to 15 folx; therefore, registration is first come, first serve. We encourage you to register early!
Register HERE
