SpeakHealth Highlights

5/18/2020—This week, Institute partner, NatureWorx, will be hosting another "Connecting With Nature Together" Zoom cast. This Zoom session will connect you with like-minded individuals and let you experience the healing power of nature right from the comfort of your own home. 

5/15/2020—A new survey of primary care clinicians, conducted from May 8-11 by the Larry A. Green Center with Institute Visiting Visionary, Rebecca Etz, Ph.D., shows that clinicians have been pushed to the breaking point in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with 84% of clinicians reporting that they are experiencing severe or close to severe stress and 28% saying burnout is at an all-time high. For more information on this survey, click here.

5/1/2020—Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field publishes its first quarterly newsletter, which includes a review of integrative medicine approaches to COVID-19. To read more, click here.

4/23/2020—For some time, the government has been talking about "flattening the curve” of the pandemic. But in this featured editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D, Ph.D. discusses how we should be working toward crushing the curve instead of just flattening it.

4/5/2020—Institute Scholar Claudia Witt, MD, MBA Co-Authors Overview of CAM for the Treatment of COVID-19.

4/1/2020—Institute Scholar Steven Woolf, MD, MPH provides a more nuanced perspective on the public debate—public health on one hand and a return to business-as-usual on the other. The article was published in the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) March 2020 Population News Roundup.