SpeakHealth Highlights

8/27/2020—In this week's "Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey," nearly 63 percent of practices note stress increases over the past four weeks and report a rise in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 illnesses. Of the physicians surveyed, 45 percent report staff and colleagues require increased psychological support to get through their day to day, and 53 percent of clinicians and staff members have been out due to illness or self-quarantine. For more information on this survey or past results, click here. 

8/11/2020—Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field publishes its second quarterly newsletter, which includes an update from its satellite groups around the world. To read more, click here.

8/4/2020— Institute Scholar, Steven Woolf, MD, MPH, co-authors new paper in The Milbank Quarterly, looking at policies, politics, and life expectancy in the USA.

7/15/2020— Institute Fellow, Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS, co-authors paper comparing the health and social care between countries.

7/14/2020— The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians announced Institute Fellow Heidi Gullett, MD, MPH, as the 2020 Family Physician of the Year.

7/7/2020—Visiting Visionary Rebecca Etz, PhD, featured in a new article discussing how primary care practices are still furloughing and laying off staff to improve financial stability during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey of clinicians.

6/28/2020—Scholar Judy Rollins, PhD, RN, co-authors paper in the Journal of Child and Family Studies detailing project for empathetic art.