Press Coverage

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Our kids are still at home while universities reopen? That’s backward

08/25/2020

Our kids are still at home while universities reopen? That’s backward, according to CBSSM's Naomi Laventhal in a recent Washington Post "Post Everything" article.

Our kids are still at home while universities reopen? That’s backward

Faculty:

Naomi Laventhal, MD, MA, HEC-C

Research Topics:

Pandemic

Public policy

In a recent ASCO Post video, Narjust Duma, MD and CBSSM's Director, Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil discuss the state of diversity in the hematology-oncology workforce, mechanisms that lead to inequities, promising interventions, and where the field should go next.

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, and Narjust Duma, MD, on Diversity in Oncology: A Discussion of Evidence-Based Transformation

Faculty:

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil

Research Topics:

Diversity and Equity

oncology

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Telehealth Visits Skyrocket for Older Adults, but Concerns and Barriers Remain

08/20/2020

New data on telemedicine use by adults over 50 show change since previous poll in 2019, including reduced worries about privacy and virtual interaction. One in four older Americans had a virtual medical visit in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them by video, a new telehealth poll finds. That’s much higher than the 4% of people over 50 who said they had ever had a virtual visit with a doctor in a similar poll taken in 2019.

Telehealth Visits Skyrocket for Older Adults, but Concerns and Barriers Remain

Faculty:

Jeffrey Kullgren, MS, MD, MPH

Research Topics:

Telehealth

Doctor-patient communication

Privacy of health information

Pandemic

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Survey study finds 1 in 3 Americans with a high-deductible health plan lack a Health Savings Account

08/18/2020

Health savings accounts (HSAs) can be used by enrollees in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) to save for health care expenses before taxes. Expansion of and encouraging contributions to HSAs have been centerpieces of recent federal legislation. In a national survey of 1637 respondents, approximately 1 in 3 adults enrolled in a high-deductible health plan did not have a health savings account. Among those with a health savings account, most had not contributed money into it in the last year.

Use of Health Savings Accounts Among US Adults Enrolled in High-Deductible Health Plans

Many medical 'rainy day' accounts aren't getting opened or filled, study finds

Study calls for targeted interventions to help people with lower levels of health insurance literacy

Use of Health Savings Accounts to Save for Health Care Expenses

Faculty:

Jeffrey Kullgren, MS, MD, MPH

Research Topics:

High-deductible health plans

Healthcare costs

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Women in Science May Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19

08/13/2020

CBSSM's Director Reshma Jagsi and colleagues quantified the early impact of COVID-19 on the gender gap in publications. Using mixed-effects regression models, they estimated that women’s shares of first authorships, last authorships and general representation per author group are 23%, 16% and 16% lower for COVID-19 papers compared to 2019 papers published in the same journals. This study was also recently highlighted in the Scientific American.

Meta-Research: COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected

Is COVID-19 Widening the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-in-science-may-suffer-lasting-career-damage-from-covid-19/

Faculty:

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil

Research Topics:

Gender equity

Pandemic