Powering Up Podcast: In Powering Up, we explore the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 in African American communities
Marianne Udow-Phillips, founding executive director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation, joined Anne Doyle for this week’s Powering Up! podcast, “African Americans Bearing the Brunt of U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic.” Detroit, Michigan, one of the COVID-19 hot spots in the U.S., is bearing witness to the disproportionate impact the pandemic is having on African American communities. To date, 35 percent of …
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Huffington Post, In The Media: In Detroit, CHRT’s Cover Michigan Survey illuminates health care access challenges for HuffPo, Type Investigations
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on healthcare systems worldwide, and Detroit is no exception. In “Detroit’s health care workers ask: ‘How many lives can we save?’ a Huffington Post and Type Investigations story, Patricia Anstett, Jonathan Cohn, Tom Perkins, and Anna Clark describe the impact of coronavirus in “one of the most segregated regions in the country, …
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Bridge Magazine, In The Media: Marianne Udow-Phillips offers insights on complex hospital staffing issues during the COVID-19 crisis
As hospitals and health systems across Michigan scramble to address a surge in COVID-19 patients, there is competition over the short supply of highly sought-after critical care nurses – driving up labor costs and pulling some Michigan nurses away from their regular jobs to take higher-paying temporary positions. In “Michigan nurses getting fat pay raises or pink slips in coronavirus …
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Bridge Magazine, In The Media: PPE supply shortages aren’t helped by halting abortions writes Dr. Jen Villavicencio
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for healthcare systems around the world. Lack of medical supplies, particularly PPE, has become a major problem, prompting some to recommend stopping non-essential medical services, like abortions. However, halting abortions may not be an effective solution. Jen Villavicencio, a Michigan Medicine OB-GYN, and CHRT Health Policy Fellow, in a Bridge Magazine op-ed that …
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In The Media, Petoskey News Review: Public Health Work has Never Been More Important
“In the world of public health, so many of our days are spent working behind the scenes — preventing disease, protecting health and the environment, preparing for disasters — that we often say the best outcome is one that is invisible,” writes Lisa Peacock, a CHRT Health Policy Fellow and a Health Officer for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan. …
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CGTN, In The Media: Udow-Phillips offers perspective as China Global Television examines U.S. health system amid coronavirus
Lending context to China Global Television Network’s (CGTN) scrutiny of the U.S health system’s response to the coronavirus crisis, CHRT Executive Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains that lack of health coverage is “…a huge concern in the middle of coronavirus, because this is a pandemic, it doesn’t hit just people who are insured.” The story looks at U.S. health system policy …
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Bridge Magazine, In The Media: For independent, rural hospitals, coronavirus may pose an existential threat. Udow-Phillips explains.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the healthcare system across the United States, and rural hospitals in Michigan are no exception. In the Bridge MI article “Rural Michigan hospitals say coronavirus may soon force some to close,” Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation at the University of Michigan, describes the thin …
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ABC News, In The Media: Udow-Phillips praises state leaders on the actions they’re taking to combat the spread of coronavirus
Marianne Udow-Phillips As coronavirus continues to spread, U.S. leaders in our nation’s capital have struggled to roll out a national plan of action, writes ABC News reporter Ivan Pereira in “State governors taking lead on coronavirus precautions as federal government works to define plan.” State leaders are filling the gap. Marianne Udow-Phillips, founding executive director of the Center for Health …
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In The Media, MLive: Bartholomew discusses the healthcare system changes proposed by Democratic presidential candidates
Ryan Bartholomew, a health policy analyst at CHRT, offers insight on the different approaches to improving our healthcare system proposed by Presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in “How Democratic Presidential candidates want to change health care.” “The largest benefit is if you are a fan of the private health insurance marketplace,” says Bartholomew of Biden’s proposal. “If you …
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CGTN, In The Media: Shortage of medical supplies for addressing COVID-19 is a challenge. Marianne Udow-Phillips explains.
Since the pandemic outbreak, healthcare providers and hospitals have been on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. Due to the rapid spread of the virus, healthcare systems are facing a shortage of medical supplies, equipment, personnel, and other essential resources. In an interview with China Global Television Network anchor Elaine Reyes, Marianne Udow-Phillips, founding executive director of the …
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