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March 23, 2020

COVID-19 and the Digital Divide

Written by Emily Hooks   As COVID-19 cases increase throughout our state and nation, social distancing guidelines have caused Americans to restructure most of our daily routines. To adhere to…

March 13, 2020

What the 2007 NCIOM Pandemic Flu Task Force recommendations can tell us about the ethics of handling COVID-19

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald   As concerns over state and local responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic increase, the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) is looking back to a report…

March 10, 2020

A Closer Look at HNC 2030 Health Indicators: Severe Housing Problems

First Installment in NCIOM’s “A Path Toward Health” Series Written by Brieanne Lyda-McDonald   The recently released Healthy North Carolina 2030 health goals for the next decade reflect the broad…

March 4, 2020

Youth Behavioral Health in North Carolina

The latest issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal takes a dual approach to addressing youth behavioral health in our state. As guest editor Kurt D. Michael, PhD, of Appalachian…