Action Needed: COVID-19 Pandemic

The HCW Hosted team of healthcare workers & family members, public health professionals, and health social scientists has launched an advocacy campaign to encourage the public to stay the course with COVID-19 recommendations as a means of protecting  themselves, their communities  and our healthcare workers. 

We need your support to get the word out! Please sign and share the HEALTH CITIZEN PLEDGE: healthcitizenpledge.org  

We are in the early days of the Pledge, trying to build momentum so every share, every endorsement, every signature counts!  Once we have enough signatures, we will be taking the Pledge to elected officials to ask them to support the Pledge and we will hold them accountable. The WHO recently came out  with a call to government leaders to keep healthcare workers safe. The Pledge echoes this plea. It is your opportunity to stand with our health care workers and reaffirm your commitment to the social contract upon which our democracy is based. And if  you are a member of an organization that would like to co-sponsor the Pledge , please let me know.

 Mark Nichter : Lifetime member of the AAA,  former president of the SMA, one of the founding members of HCWhosted.org

ARHE is selected for the American Anthropological Association Presidents’ Award

From the award website:

The SMA’s Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group
 is recognized for rapidly mobilizing a wide range of valuable information resources in response to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, including a series of highly informative webinars, online background information resources, and an expanded roster of content area specialists ready to share their insights with response partner organizations and affected communities.

AAA Presidents’ Award Information

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We are so honored to be recognized for our Special Interest Group’s work on COVID-19 and for the efforts of everyone involved in the webinars, the calls to action, the workshops, business meetings, and panel presentations that ARHE has sponsored or assisted with since 2016 on Zika, Ebola, Measles, and now COVID-19. Thank you to everyone involved in the Special Interest Group. Thank you to the American Anthropological Association for your recognition of our work and the mission of our Special Interest Group.

Kristin Hedges (Grand Valley State University)
Deon Claiborne (Michigan State University)
Co-Chairs, Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies