Strengthening Academic Public Health Programs and Workforce Development Through Fieldwork: Insights From a Novel Partnership Between New Mexico's Two Major Universities.

Our collaboration to strengthen applied practice in public health training between two public universities in New Mexico has offered us insight into the types of institutional, administrative, and programmatic support beneficial for navigating work with limited resources and varying geographic considerations. We share some lessons from this burgeoning partnership between University of New Mexico's (UNM) College of Population Health and New Mexico State University's (NMSU) Department of Public Health Sciences which began in 2022. The main areas of learning focus on exchanging resources to extend relationships with fieldwork sites and site supervisors, engage and support students in their planning and implementation of their fieldwork, and identify institutional resources to maintain and grow programmatic quality.

Social capital and changes of psychologic distress during early stage of COVID-19 in New orleans.

Here we report on the relationship between measures of social capital, and their association with changes in self-reported measures of psychological distress during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze data from an existing cluster randomized control trial (the Healthy Neighborhoods Project) with 244 participants from New Orleans, Louisiana. Changes in self-reported scores between baseline (January 2019-March 2020) and participant's second survey (March 20, 2020, and onwards) are calculated.

The influence of racial violence in neighborhoods and schools on the psycho-behavioral outcomes in adolescence.

Racism in all its manifestations is violence. This study examines the effect of discrimination-based racial violence in neighborhoods and schools on adolescent psychological and behavioral outcomes, while also testing the moderating influence of civic engagement. Researchers used a cross-sectional survey design to measure neighborhood and school-based racial discrimination, civic engagement, racial identity development, racism-based stress, and aggressive behaviors in a sample of 167, 13 to 23 year old adolescents and emerging adults.

In it Together: Sense of Community and Psychologic Distress During COVID-19.

We assessed the relationship between differences in indicators of social capital before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their association with self-reported measures of psychological distress. The data was analyzed from an existing cluster randomized control trial (the ) with 244 participants from New Orleans, Louisiana. Differences in self-reported scores between baseline (January 2019-March 2020) and participant's second survey (March 20, 2020, and onwards) were calculated.

Stress and Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Neighborhood Context.

Neighborhoods play a central role in health and mental health, particularly during disasters and crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined changes in psychological distress following the pandemic, and the potential role of neighborhood conditions among 244 residents of New Orleans, Louisiana. Using modified linear regression models, we assessed associations between neighborhood characteristics and change in psychological distress from before to during the pandemic, testing effect modification by sex and social support.

FDA Drug Safety Podcasts: resources for drug information.

Objective: To describe a Web-based drug information service provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to increase the reach of Drug Safety Communications to pharmacists and other health professionals.

Setting: The Division of Drug Information (DDI) within the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Office of Communications, Silver Spring, MD, between January 2010 and April 2012.

Practice Description: DDI provides drug information services regarding human drug products and expert advice and guidance on all aspects of CDER activities.

Medical Information Specialists: Benchmarks in Practice.

A gap exists for global benchmarking data on medical information specialists across the pharmaceutical industry. As such, the purpose of this study was to benchmark the practices and training of medical information specialists in the pharmaceutical industry. Results collected will be used to identify training and background of current medical information specialists as well as to describe current medical information-related responsibilities.

Pharmacy students' perceptions of and attitudes towards peer assessment within a drug literature evaluation course.

Objective: To assess pharmacy students' perceptions of and attitudes towards the use of peer assessment within a drug literature evaluation course.

Methods: A 15-item, electronic survey instrument was sent to 158 second-year pharmacy students enrolled in a 2-credit required literature evaluation course at the Purdue University College of Pharmacy.

Results: One hundred fifty-two (96.

The polycystic kidney disease 1 (Pkd1) gene is required for the responses of osteochondroprogenitor cells to midpalatal suture expansion in mice.

Mechanical stress is known to modulate postnatal skeletal growth and development. However, the mechanisms underlying the mechanotransduction are not fully understood. Polycystin-1 (PC1) is a promising candidate among proteins that may play a role in the process as it has been shown to function as a flow sensor in renal epithelium and it is known to be important for skeletal development.