MHIR DEI Email Blast 10/28 - 11/1/24

 Hello MHIR,

 
We hope that you continue to take care of yourselves and each other.*
*These suggestions might not be supportive to you, and that’s ok!! Drop us a line to tell us about what has been.
P.S., Many NYT and HBR articles are free through MH – The MH Library can assist with access at library@mainehealth.org
  • Please NOTE: If titles are listed, they have been COPIED EXACTLY from the news source; this is intended to help with links being searchable. If you would like to read one of these articles and it is behind a paywall, please request it from the library
 
Uplifting News and Empowering Information 

FDA approves Cobenfy, a brand new type of schizophrenia drug
A Simple Exercise to Help You Check Your Biases
Dr. Rosalind Chow’s (our guest speaker in May) book, The Doors You Can Open
A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace, is now available for pre-order.
Newsworthy and noteworthy for this week:
 

 
Upcoming Events:
 
11/4: We are happy to host Dr. Annika Schoene. Dr. Schoene is a research scientist at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI. She also holds an honorary faculty fellow position at the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research and is a visiting scientist here at MHIR. Her current work investigates how social, economic, political and physical factors are driving forces behind health inequalities using AI. More specifically, she focuses on social determinants of mental health using NLP and their impact on onset and progression of mental health conditions, especially suicidal ideation and substance use disorders. She will be speaking to our group about bias in AI and what it means for healthcare and research, so come with questions prepared! 
11/14 (but check out the other dates): rainbowR Zoom based book club for Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action by Kevin Guyan. The book club is open to LGBTQ+ folk and allies.
 
12/2: We are happy to host Dr. Evelyn Mercado to speak about her research. Dr. Mercado's research seeks to better understand how close relationships buffer or increase risk for mental health outcomes in ethnic minority populations, with an emphasis on families of Latin American backgrounds. Her current work focuses on ways exposure to stress (e.g., discrimination) may impact the parent-adolescent relationship and youth adjustment through the application of a biopsychosocial lens. She is particularly interested in how interpersonal emotion dynamics such shared physiology and affect, may serve as a protective or risk factor for psychological adjustment. Her research employs both naturalistic (e.g., daily diary studies) and experimental methods in combination with self-report, observational, and psychophysiological measures (e.g., cortisol). 
 
Resources:
 
American Psychological Association’s Inclusive Language Guide
American Psychological Association’s Bias-Free Language Guide
NEJM’s video – A Sense of Belonging
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