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Mercy College Celebrates Honorees and Raises More Than $400,000 for Student Scholarships at its 42nd Annual Trustees' Gala

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Monday, May 8, 2023
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DOBBS FERRY, N.Y., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Mercy College announced that it raised more than $400,000 at its 42nd Annual Trustees' Scholarship Gala to benefit student scholarships. Held at Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, New York on May 4th, the event drew nearly 300 attendees, including community leaders, as well as Mercy trustees, students, Mercy and College of New Rochelle (CNR) alumni, faculty and staff, and friends who gathered in person and virtually to celebrate the evening's honorees and raise critical funds for students.

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  • Mercy College announced that it raised more than $400,000 at its 42nd Annual Trustees' Scholarship Gala to benefit student scholarships.
  • DOBBS FERRY, N.Y., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Mercy College announced that it raised more than $400,000 at its 42nd Annual Trustees' Scholarship Gala to benefit student scholarships.
  • "I'm so proud of how proud our alumni are for their degrees of Mercy College," said Tim Hall, president of Mercy College, who received a standing ovation.
  • "Mercy College has brought incredible resources to our community and to its students under President Hall," said Westchester County Legislator Imamura.

Nippon Life Selects H2O.ai to Transform Its Insurance Business With Machine Learning and Improve Customer Health

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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H2O.ai , the AI Cloud leader, today announced a strategic partnership with Nippon Life Insurance Company, also known as Nissay in Japan.

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  • H2O.ai , the AI Cloud leader, today announced a strategic partnership with Nippon Life Insurance Company, also known as Nissay in Japan.
  • Specifically, the companies are announcing a partnership where Nippon Life Insurance Company will deploy H2O Driverless AI tools to better meet the needs of their policyholders, improve financial soundness of corporate health insurance unions and support health promotion and disease prevention.
  • “AI is transforming the trillion dollar healthcare insurance industry, both the businesses themselves and the care they facilitate,” said Sri Ambati, CEO and founder of H2O.ai.
  • “By helping Nippon Life advance their AI initiatives and create better customer experiences, the end result is literally, healthier people.

The power of cultural identity on psychological well-being: Singing, trauma and the resilience of the Yazidi population of northern Iraq

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Monday, May 1, 2023
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The Yazidi community is based in Sinjar region, which is located in Nineveh Governorate, in northern Iraq.

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  • The Yazidi community is based in Sinjar region, which is located in Nineveh Governorate, in northern Iraq.
  • After the genocide of 2014, members of the Yazidi community looked for safety in countries all over the world.
  • Resilience strengthening is a key for the treatment of those survivors, especially for the Yazidi individual, collective and transgenerational traumatization.

Link between mental health and cultural identity

    • Research has indicated that a positive cultural identity contributes to better mental health.
    • In a longitudinal study with Asian and Latino youth, cultural identity was associated with lower levels of depression symptoms.
    • Cultural continuity helped Indigenous communities of Canada to thrive, and promoting the sense of collective pride might contribute to positive mental health.

Humanitarian intervention

    • The Yazidi issues are a different type of deliberate horror, and are still very recent in the memory of survivors.
    • Médecins Sans Frontières warned the world in 2019 of the mental health crisis and of increasing suicide rates in the region.
    • I was recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières in summer 2022 to support a health promotion program in Sinuni, Iraq.


    As part of the mental health activities, I developed the content of a series of workshops, with the aim to:

    • As part of the last workshop, there were participatory activities on the importance of peer groups, on the role of cooking and traditional practices.
    • The aim of those activities was to bring awareness on the positive impact of cultural identity, and strengthen social relations between neighbours.
    • However, more work needs to be done to improve mental health in the region via health promotion, counselling, therapy and psychiatry.

4 ways all online university courses could promote student mental health

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Sunday, April 23, 2023
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At the same time in Canada, more students are taking online courses, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • At the same time in Canada, more students are taking online courses, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Read more:
    Do university students want more online learning, post-pandemic?

Course work is central to student experience

    • While the post-secondary experience is not all about course work, completing assignments, writing exams and attending lectures is a big part of students’ daily lives.
    • This makes academic courses prime forums where instructors can promote mental health by sharing mental health resources (providing information about student mental health services) and by designing accessible and flexible courses.

Universities’ commitments to well-being

    • There are many opportunities to make post-secondary institutions more accessible, inclusive and health promoting.
    • Forty-four Canadian post-secondary institutions have taken up aspects of this charter as part of the Canadian Health Promoting Campuses Network.

What students want

    • Students in my study were asked: “What advice would you give to your professors/instructors (teaching online courses) to facilitate inclusive and supportive learning environments for students with mental-health-related disorders?” Students suggested the following: 1) Use elements of universal design for learning to provide accessibility for all students while also promoting mental health.
    • Students said:
      “Online learning has been wonderful for my mental health.
    • Having to ask for extensions can be difficult for students who are already experiencing the negative effects of mental-health-related stigma.
    • 3) Students consistently said they are juggling multiple priorities (academics, jobs and family) and managing stress with varied levels of support.

Setting the stage for wellness

    • The results of this study suggest that online courses can be designed to be accessible and to promote mental health.
    • Courses that are designed to be accessible and to promote mental health set the stage for learning and wellness.

FREENOME ADDS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AS A PARTNER FOR ITS VALLANIA STUDY

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Freenome, a privately held biotech company, announced today that the Institute for Population and Precision Health (IPPH) at the University of Chicago has joined as a study partner for its Vallania Study. The Vallania Study began enrollment in 2022 and focuses on the detection of multiple cancers.

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  • The Vallania Study began enrollment in 2022 and focuses on the detection of multiple cancers.
  • The Vallania Study is a key milestone in Freenome's plan to expand early detection of cancer screening beyond colorectal cancer (CRC).
  • The Vallania Study honors the mother of a Freenome scientist who battled pancreatic cancer.
  • Additional information on the Vallania Study can be found on the study webpage or at clinicaltrials.gov .

Community health workers in Ethiopia set out to promote health - in the process they've empowered girls in other ways too

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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Adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia continue to face challenges, especially in rural areas.

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  • Adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia continue to face challenges, especially in rural areas.
  • The country has a national community health programme which aims to increase the availability of basic health services and promote healthy lifestyles.
  • Our study looked at the association between this health extension programme and 12 indicators of adolescent health and well-being.
  • However, our findings suggest that household visits from health extension workers have had a measurable impact on multiple interconnected adolescent challenges beyond just health.
  • Household visits from health extension workers appear to reduce rates of child marriage, early pregnancy and school dropout.

Health extension workers

    • It is delivered by local health extension workers, who are mostly young women.
    • The health extension workers promote routine medical check-ups at the local health post.
    • Our research suggests that household visits from health extension workers are linked to significantly lower risks of child marriage, early pregnancy and school dropout.
    • Health extension workers can modify families’ expectations for girls to marry early, and their reluctance to invest in girls’ secondary education.

The next steps

    • This remains a taboo issue among some communities where it’s believed that access to modern contraception will promote promiscuity.
    • Our study found no evidence that household visits from health extension workers had addressed common misconceptions among adolescent girls around fertility and preventing sexually transmitted infections.
    • There are still social barriers that prevent girls from getting information, services and support, and that foster misinformation around modern contraception.

How digital marketing of legal but harmful products escalates health threats to the most vulnerable

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Monday, April 3, 2023
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The marketing of legal but harmful products – like alcohol and tobacco – has always targeted our emotional desires.

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  • The marketing of legal but harmful products – like alcohol and tobacco – has always targeted our emotional desires.
  • But it has now moved to digital and social media, and this creates a heightened threat to public health because both the products and the platform target our neurological response.
  • But as limbic capitalism has gone digital over the past decade, marketers can now reach us on our smartphones as we use digital and social media platforms.
  • When used to promote potentially addictive products, this presents a serious threat to public health and the wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations.
  • *
    Read more:
    Alcohol marketing has crossed borders and entered the metaverse – how do we regulate the new digital risk?
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    ** We surveyed people aged 14 to 20 in Aotearoa New Zealand about their experience of alcohol and tobacco marketing on social media.
  • This is because marketing has been naturalised into these digital environments and has become difficult to identify and avoid.

Health4Heroes Invites Competitors, Sponsors and Vendors to Register for 2nd Annual "Guardian Games & Expo"

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Friday, March 3, 2023
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LOVELAND, Colo., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Colorado non-profit "Health4Heroes" will host the 2nd Annual Military and First Responder-inspired Guardian Games & Expo, a large scale, high-energy fitness competition and regional showcasing event.

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  • LOVELAND, Colo., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Colorado non-profit "Health4Heroes" will host the 2nd Annual Military and First Responder-inspired Guardian Games & Expo, a large scale, high-energy fitness competition and regional showcasing event.
  • Registration is now open for all interested competitors, sponsors and vendors.
  • The Guardian Games Fitness Competition will host co-ed teams of three who will compete in one of three divisions: Open, Competitive or Masters (age 40+).
  • The Guardian Games Expo will hold space for static vehicle displays, demos, games, kid zone, music, vendors, beer garden and more.

Healthful & Sympto Health Merge to Become Rely Health, Expanding Its Care Navigation Service for Patients

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Inflect Health, the investment and innovation hub of national healthcare Partnership Vituity, today announced that its incubated startup Healthful has merged with Sympto to become Rely Health, a new Care Navigation infrastructure provider for the country's largest healthcare customers.

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  • In Era of Increasing AI & Health Automation, Rely Health Announces NewHealthcare Role of Patient Care Navigators
    EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Inflect Health , the investment and innovation hub of national healthcare Partnership Vituity , today announced that its incubated startup Healthful has merged with Sympto to become Rely Health, a new Care Navigation infrastructure provider for the country's largest healthcare customers.
  • "Healthful has done incredible work innovating concierge-level care for patients, and we're excited that Sympto's impressive technology will expand their reach and impact together as Rely Health.
  • As AI and personalized automation becomes pervasive across the US healthcare system, Healthful saw a need for Patient Care Navigators, highly qualified specialists who give patients direct and personal attention across their health journey.
  • Already in use by leading health care organizations including Kaiser Permanente and Ascension Healthcare, an early trial of Patient Care Navigation resulted in a 960% return on investment over a six-month period while garnering excellent feedback from patients.

Vitality Names Alan Spiro, MD, Chief Clinical Advisor, to Build on Dedicated US-based Clinical Expertise

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In keeping with its core purpose to make people healthier, Vitality is growing its dedicated US-based clinical expertise with the appointment of Alan Spiro, MD, as chief clinical advisor.

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  • CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In keeping with its core purpose to make people healthier, Vitality is growing its dedicated US-based clinical expertise with the appointment of Alan Spiro, MD, as chief clinical advisor.
  • With more than three decades in healthcare, Dr. Spiro also serves as President and Chief Medical Officer of Laguna Health.
  • Prior to Blue Health Intelligence, Dr. Spiro was Chief Medical Officer for Medica, and was also the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Accolade.
  • As Chief Clinical Advisor for Vitality, Dr. Spiro will provide oversight, and serve as a thought leader and spokesperson for the organization.