MHIR DEI Email Blast 11/4-11/8/24
Hello MHIR,
We hope that you continue to take care of yourselves and each other.*
- Are you still registered to vote? How to make sure you’re up to date.
- Make election week less stressful, without putting down your phone
- When will we know the election results? What to know about vote counting.
- This is the best way to toss your pumpkins after Halloween, According to Sustainability Experts
- Talkspace therapy is now available through the MaineHealth Resources for Living, Employee Assistance Program
*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
Today at 1pm!! Reply to this email if you don't have the link and you would like it:
We are happy to host Dr. Annika Schoene. Dr. Schoene Annika 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, so come with questions prepared!
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:
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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
American Medical Association’s Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts
NEJM’s video – A Sense of Belonging
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Some dates to be aware of (Know of others? Drop us a line!)
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11/23 | Thanksgiving – which for many Indigenous communities is a national day of mourning. Check out this piece on uplifting Native Americans during this holiday and beyond |
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