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October 19, 2021

NCIOM Legislative Health Policy Fellows Program Convenes Third Cohort

By Kaitlin Phillips

The North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) this month began hosting the third cohort of the Legislative Health Policy Fellows Program to provide General Assembly members with resources and data…

October 4, 2021

Pt 2: COVID and North Carolina Kids: What’s the Latest?

By Michelle Ries

By Michelle Ries Emerging Data on the Impact of Masking in Schools   Emerging research shows the impact of mitigation policies in schools. While it is too early to fully…

September 30, 2021

COVID and North Carolina Kids: What’s the Latest?

By Michelle Ries

By Michelle Ries, MPH Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, children have fortunately not suffered high rates of severe disease. However, the Delta variant has led to increased cases among children, and…

September 21, 2021

Bridging Health & Community: How COVID Changed NC’s Health Workforce

By Kaitlin Phillips

In Spring 2020, we started to hear more and more about “essential” and “frontline” workers. At first the terms were mostly used to refer to the nurses, doctors, first responders,…