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November Updates from the Mongan Institute
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Mongan Reflections from the Director: Radical Visions for Public Health
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Among the high points of our academic year at the Mongan Institute are our invited honorary lectureships. In October we had the extraordinary privilege of hosting Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, for the annual David Blumenthal lectureship. Dr. Galea’s presentation, “Priorities for health in the post-Covid-19 era” provided an inspiring, yet sobering perspective on the challenges before us as the pandemic (hopefully) recedes. COVID-19 not only starkly magnified long-standing disparities in health and healthcare for racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income individuals in our nation and across the globe, but it also highlighted the tragic inadequacy of social, mental health, and substance abuse services in our nation’s healthcare delivery “system”. In addition to the disproportionate incidence, mortality, and life expectancy associated with COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minorities and vulnerable populations, the secondary effects of the pandemic on low-income workers, and on our physical and mental health will be with us for some time to come. Dr. Galea’s talk identified three key impediments to addressing these challenges (complexity of systems; our biases and privileged perspectives; and group think and absolutism) and three potential measures that will facilitate solutions (epistemic humility; radical compassion; and reform through reason). More on Dr. Galea’s in depth analysis and vision of priorities for the Post-COVID-19 era can be found in “We Need a Health New Deal” (US News and World Report); “A Radical Vision, An Incremental Approach to Achieving the Aspirations of Public Health” (Millbank Quarterly), and in his extraordinary and highly recommended recently published book, “The Contagion Next Time”.
Following the lecture, Dr. Galea met with some of Mongan Institute’s junior faculty and trainees and offered candid responses to an array of questions on research career development in a highly competitive, challenging, yet promising environment for health care delivery scientists interested in advancing health equity. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Galea as a friend to the Mongan Institute, and are grateful to Dr. David Blumenthal for his support and participation in this annual event.
As highlighted in this November Updates from the Mongan Institute, we are also thrilled to announce this year’s Honorary Ernest M. Haddad Lectureship on December 9th by Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M, Professor of Public Health and Law at George Washington University. Professor Teitelbaum will deliver a virtual lecture titled “Striving for Health Justice: History, Law, and Structural Change” providing both a historical overview and legal perspective on health disparities, health justice, and his unique “radical vision” for health care reform. We hope that you will join us for this exciting annual event!
Finally, with the holiday season rapidly approaching, I sincerely hope that we can all take much needed time away from the demands and stresses of work to relax, and to spend time with family, loved ones, and friends. Best wishes for the coming holiday season!
- Steve Bartels, MD, MS
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Dear Colleague,
In this newsletter you will find:
Mongan Institute News and Events
- Lecture Updates
- Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M, Presenting the Annual Ernest M. Haddad Honorary Lecture
- Watch the recording of the Blumenthal Lecture with Dr. Sandro Galea, “Priorities for health in the post-Covid-19 era”
- Awards & Honors
- Margarita Alegria, PhD, Received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Latino Behavioral Health Research
- Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc, Received the 2021 Bram Rose Memorial Lectureship
- Recent Publications
- Job Opportunities
- Social Media Highlight
News and Events from Our Partners
- The Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) Now Accepting Applications for Interim Support Funding
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Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M, Presenting the Annual Ernest M. Haddad Honorary Lecture
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The Mongan Institute is pleased to announce that Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M, will be presenting the annual Ernest M. Haddad Honorary Lecture, “Striving for Health Justice: History, Law, and Structural Change”, at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday, December 9th, 2021, from 8-9 am virtually via the MGH Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. Please click the audience live stream link- MGH Medical Grand Rounds - Live Streaming (partners.org) to view the Haddad lecture.
Please note this event is for MGH employees only.
The annual Haddad Lecture was created in 2002 by Massachusetts General Hospital to honor Ernest M. Haddad who served as the Secretary and General Counsel of the MGH for 21 years and became the founding General Counsel of Partners HealthCare (now MGB) in 1994. During his tenure, Haddad created a full-service law department that provided comprehensive legal services to the MGH and the entire Partners system and was widely recognized for its excellence throughout the legal and healthcare communities. Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M., is a Professor of public health and law at George Washington University. He serves as co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and as Director of GW’s Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, which fosters an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health law, health policy, health care, and public health. For 11 years he served as Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs in the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management. During President Obama’s second term, Professor Teitelbaum became the first lawyer named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (a.k.a. “Healthy People”), the national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over a 10-year span. Professor Teitelbaum’s teaching and research focus on the various intersections among health law, civil rights, population health, health disparities, and social/economic/political determinants of health.
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Margarita Alegria, PhD, Received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Latino Behavioral Health Research
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Margarita Alegria, PhD, chief of the Disparities Research Unit at MGH, received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Latino Behavioral Health Research from The National Latino Behavioral Health Association. She was presented this award during the 2021 National Latino Behavioral Health Virtual Conference: Envisioning Latino Behavioral Health Equity in the Next Decade.
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Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc, Received the 2021 Bram Rose Memorial Lectureship
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Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc, received the 2021 Bram Rose Memorial Lectureship from the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Click here to watch Dr. Blumenthal’s virtual acceptance speech.
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Below are a few publications recently published by Mongan Institute investigators. Please find a more comprehensive list of publications from the past 3 months on our website.
- Who's slipping through the cracks? A comprehensive individual, clinical and health system characterization of people with virological failure on first-line HIV treatment in Uganda and South Africa.
Reynolds Z, McCluskey SM, Moosa MYS, Gilbert RF, Pillay S, Aturinda I, Ard KL, Muyindike W, Musinguzi N, Masette G, Moodley P, Brijkumar J, Rautenberg T, George G, Johnson BA, Gandhi RT, Sunpath H, Marconi VC, Bwana MB, Siedner MJ.
HIV Med. 2021 Nov 9. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13203. Online ahead of print.
- The Landscape of COVID-19 Research in the United States: a Cross-sectional Study of Randomized Trials Registered on ClinicalTrials.Gov.
Sacks CA, North CM, Wolf M, Dougan M, Campbell KR, Moggridge J, Fralick M.
J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Nov 9. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-07167-9. Online ahead of print.
- Symptom monitoring after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination in a large integrated healthcare system: Separating symptoms from severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
Shenoy ES, Wickner PG, West LR, Banerji A, Blumenthal KG, Centi AJ, Gottlieb A, Hashimoto DM, Kim E, Kim M, Lee H, Simpson LA, Landman AB.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Nov 2:1-8. doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.449. Online ahead of print.
- Stress and spirituality in relation to HPA axis gene methylation among US Black women: results from the Black Women's Health Study and the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health.
Shields AE, Zhang Y, Argentieri MA, Warner ET, Cozier YC, Liu C, Dye CK, Kent BV, Baccarelli AA, Palmer JR.
Epigenomics. 2021 Nov 2. doi: 10.2217/epi-2021-0275. Online ahead of print.
- Growth In ACA-Compliant Marketplace Enrollment And Spending Risk Changes During The COVID-19 Pandemic.
Hsu J, Chin CY, Weiss M, Cohen M, Sastry J, Katz-Christy N, Bertko J, Newhouse JP.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Nov;40(11):1722-1730. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00501.
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Please visit our website to stay updated on all open positions at the Mongan Institute and our centers/programs. To apply, visit the MGH Careers website and search the job number listed.
- Implementation Research Scientist - 3149202
The Mongan Institute seeks an experienced Implementation Scientist at the advanced assistant professor or associate professor level to oversee the development and growth of a cross-institute implementation research, training, mentoring, and consultation program with a special focus on complex conditions and advancing health equity.
- Administrative Coordinator - 3161306
The Mongan Institute in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital is seeking a full time Administrative Coordinator. Founded in 2015, the Mongan Institute is dedicated to supporting research across MGH in the areas of population and health care delivery science. The Institute bridges research spanning data science to delivery science, and evaluative science to implementation science including a variety of disciplines and methods such as epidemiology, predictive analytics, cost-effectiveness, health policy, decision science, health disparities, health intervention and implementation research.
- Data Analyst I - 3156217
The Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital is seeking a full-time Data Analyst to support research at the Mongan Institute. The Data Analyst will work with investigators on externally funded research studies that focus that range from observational large data set analyses to longitudinal intervention and implementation research studies. The Mongan Institute is an innovative transdisciplinary research institute at MGH consisting of 13 centers and programs spanning data science to delivery science with over 115 faculty, over 30 research fellows, as well as medical student and undergraduate trainees.
- Project Coordinator - 3162575
The Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) within the Mongan Institute of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is seeking a full time Project Coordinator to coordinate and evaluate a variety of projects related to Initiative 4 in the MGH Structural Equity 10-pt plan: Assuring equity in access to and delivery of clinical care.
- Grant Coordinator - 3161109
The Massachusetts General Hospital’s Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) is seeking a full-time Grant Coordinator to facilitate management of the Center’s sponsored research portfolio throughout the award life-cycle. The incumbent will ensure the successful execution of sponsored awards in compliance with institutional and NIH/foundation policies and procedures and will provide oversight of existing MPEC assets.
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The Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) Now Accepting Applications for Interim Support Funding
The Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) is now accepting applications for Interim Support Funding. The Interim Support Funding (ISF) Program is open to Principal Investigators during a lapse or delay in their research funding from the NIH or another Federal agency (e.g., the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense). Investigators must have applied for independent, long-term support (R01, R21, U01 and P01). The intent of the program is to rescue strong scientific programs that are in need of bridge funding in order to sustain their research. Applications will be accepted regardless of percentile or score, including applications that were not discussed. Financial need and the impact of the COVID pandemic will be taken into account. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, December 1, 2021 by 5:00 PM.
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