Buehler Bulletin | Weekly | January 21, 2021

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IN THE NEWS: Northwestern Now - GASSP
PUBLICATIONS: JMIR Publication - Original Paper | IVDRS Recent Data Brief
SAVE THE DATE: Suicide Prevention in Healthcare
SAVE THE DATE: Qualitative Methods Workshop for Community Partners

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“Life’s most persistent question and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

IN THE NEWS

Northwestern Now - “Now we can easily identify outbreaks at their beginning,” said Lori Post, the co-lead investigator and director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “You want to know where the pandemic is accelerating, how fast it is moving and how that compares to prior weeks.”

GlobAl SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Project (GASSP) Dashboard

Snapshot Data: 01/21/2021

PUBLICATIONS

JMIR PUBLICATION: SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa: Longitudinal Trend Analysis | READ ARTICLE

January is National Poverty in America Awareness Month: The Intersection of Homicide and Poverty: Variation at the County Level - Findings from the Illinois Violent Death Reporting System, 2016–2017

Poverty is a well-known risk factor for homicide. People living in poverty have a higher likelihood of dying by homicide than those with higher incomes. While this is generally true, there are geographic and other variations in the relationship between poverty and homicide. READ FULL DATA BRIEF

Table 1.Comparing % population living in poverty — census tracts vs. county where homicides occurred; the 2016 Federal Poverty Threshold was $24,755 for a family of four

Suicide Prevention in Healthcare: Striving for Safer and Equitable Care During Covid-19 and Beyond

Please find attached a save-the-date for the Illinois Suicide Prevention Summit (“Suicide Prevention in Healthcare: Striving for Safer and Equitable Care During Covid-19 and Beyond”) that will be held virtually over two half days on January 26^th and 27^th2021. Michael Hogan, PhD, a key architect of the Zero Suicide framework will be providing a keynote address on Day 1 (26^th) and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's Chair of Pediatrics, Matthew Davis, MD, MAPP, will be providing the keynote address on Day 2 (26^th). The program also includes speakers from The Joint Commission, National Institute of Mental Health, and representatives of the United States Congress. Day 2 will feature a pediatric program track and an adult track. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. The full conference agenda is available on the summit registration website accessible through the Northwestern University Office of Continuing Medical Education (CME): https://northwestern.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=0&EID=84124. Please note that during the registration process, you will be prompted to create an account on the Northwestern CME webpage unless you have previously registered for a Northwestern CME event and already have an account. There is no registration fee for the conference. We look forward to your participation.

Qualitative Methods Workshop for Community Partners

This two-part session will provide an introductory overview of qualitative methods including types of qualitative data, tool creation, data collection methods, analysis, and provide opportunities to apply this learning through practice. The sessions will focus on qualitative methods most relevant to health-related community programming so there will be a heavy focus on preparing and conducting interviews. The second session will focus on learning from practice exercise experiences and analyzing interview and focus-group data. This training is designed to be completed as a set, with learning from the first session applied and revisited in the second session. The sessions are highly interactive and practice exercises will be assigned for completion on your own during the week between sessions.

This series is open to everyone but designed for community organizations. This training is co-hosted by Northwestern's Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) and Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics and will be led by ARCC Steering Committee Member Sarah Welch, Director of Evaluation Research in the Buehler Center.