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10/25/2024
profile-icon Jon Eldredge

 

Today’s health professionals undoubtedly need sophisticated information-related skills. Competency statements from national accrediting and professional associations reflect this need.

HSLIC faculty provide the skills and knowledge that HSC students need to meet these competencies. Many competencies relate to Evidence Based Practice (EBP) skills in question formulation, searching for the best evidence, critical appraisal, and making informed decisions. Other skills relate to library or informatics skill sets.

For these reasons, HSLIC faculty integrate their teaching into many HSC program curricula and they are gearing-up to expand their coverage. HSLIC faculty currently are integrated into the medical school, medical residency, physician assistant, biomedical sciences, population health, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy curricula. HSLIC faculty currently are the instructors-of-record in eight credit courses, which reflects the degree to which they have become aligned with the curricula at the HSC.

If you sense that your curriculum could use the involvement of HSLIC faculty in meeting the instructional needs of your own HSC program, please contact us! .

Jon Eldredge, PhD, AHIP-D, FMLA, Professor and Evidence Based Practice Librarian

10/14/2024
profile-icon Deborah Rhue

OrganizationOctober is Health Literacy Months that deal with patient care celebrate health literacy month every October as they recognize that health literacy is an important part of the care they provide to patients.  For instance, if a patient does not know how to take their medication correctly, they can end up back in their doctor’s office or the hospital.  Patient outcomes suffer and the cost of medical care rises.  The goal of health literacy is to help individuals make informed health decisions by improving their ability to access, understand, and effectively use health information.  It is important to emphasize to busy patient care providers that health literacy matters and the annual October celebration serves as a wonderful reminder of this often-overlooked aspect of good medical care. 

The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center offers workshops on Health Literacy every year.  In addition, the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) is one of the few hospitals in the country that has an Health Literacy Office.  UNMH’s Health Literacy Office provides workshops on teach-back and plain language methods of communication.  In addition, they will review forms, policies and handouts for UNMH departments to make sure the documents meet suggested health literacy standards:  https://unmhealth.org/diversity-equity-inclusion/health-literacy.html

If you would like to learn more about health literacy, there are many excellent websites on the Internet for you to browse.  Here are a few:

National Institutes of Health:  https://www.nih.gov/institutes-nih/nih-office-director/office-communications-public-liaison/clear-communication/health-literacy

CDC:  https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/index.html

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion:  https://health.gov/news/202010/october-health-literacy-month

07/26/2024
profile-icon Deborah Rhue

 

Americans with Disabilities Act 34

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) celebrates its 34th anniversary on July 26, 2024. This landmark and transformative legislation guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities regarding employment, access to public services, public telecommunications, and accommodations as everyone else.

Signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. Bush, the ADA protects people with disabilities from discrimination and advances equality for all.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is composed of five major titles--each title addresses different areas of public life where discrimination against individuals with disabilities can occur. Here are the major areas or titles of the ADA:

 I.  Employment

 II.  Public Services

III.  Public Accommodations and Services Offered by Private Entities

IV.  Telecommunications 

V.  Miscellaneous Provisions

For more information on the Americans with Disabilities Act, visit https://www.ada.gov

For information about the disability laws in New Mexico:  https://www.gcd.nm.gov/disability-laws/

If you have questions about the ADA, or need information about an ADA issue, see:  https://www.ada.gov/infoline/

Happy 34th Birthday Americans with Disabilities Act!!!!!!

06/28/2024
Abbie Olivas

Please join us for our exhibit closing reception and talk on Tuesday, July 9, 5pm-7pm in HSLIC Room 428

Dr. Laura Nellums, UNM Professor of Global Health, will present A World on the Move: Global Health Equity in the Context of Migration.

According to Dr. Nellums, "This presentation will focus on migration and health. It will encompass drivers and patterns of migration, social determinants of health in the context of migration, the interrelationship between immigration policy, health policy, migrant and public health outcomes, and recommendations for how to advance health equity in migrant communities."

Dr. Nellums obtained her BA in Spanish and International Relations from Wellesley College, followed by her MSc in Medical Anthropology (University of Oxford), and PhD in Public Health (King’s College London). Her research is broadly focused on improving inequities in access to care and health outcomes in excluded populations. Dr. Nellums' particular expertise is in migrant, refugee, and ethnic minority health, and she has carried out mixed-methods research in infectious diseases, mental health, stressful life events, maternal and child health, and health policy and services. 

This event is in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine's traveling exhibit Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health. The exhibit will be on display on the Library's 4th floor from June 3 - July 13, 2024.

The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Refreshments will be served.

 

04/29/2024
profile-icon Deborah Rhue

 

 

All of Us Tech Days Presentation

Lori Sloane and Deborah Rhue from HSLIC joined Todd Quinn and Karl Benedict from CULLS to present a talk about the All of Us Research Program at the annual University of New Mexico’s Tech Days on Friday, April 26, 2024.  The talk, entitledAll of Us: Using Big Data to Study Factors Affecting Health and Health Impacts,” was well- and enthusiastically received. 

Deborah, Lori, Todd and Karl have been working to promote awareness and enrollment in the NIH-sponsored All of Research Program since 2023 when the University of New Mexico became one of the Program’s officially enrolled research participants. 

The All of Us Research Program is an effort funded by the National Institutes of Health to gather health data from one million or more people in the United States.  The All of Us Research Program encourages individuals from communities historically left out of biomedical research studies to enroll and share their health data and make that data available to researchers through the All of Us Research Program platform.

   "All of Us: Using Big Data to Study Factors Affecting Health and Health Impacts":  Tech Days Slide Presentation

    For more information about the All of Us Research ProgramAll of Us Research Program 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

04/16/2024
profile-icon Gale Hannigan

 

The purpose of National Minority Health Month is to "raise awareness about the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority communities and reducing health disparities."

This year's theme is Be the Source for Better Health, which fits right in with HSLIC's mission to advance health and health equity as New Mexico’s only publicly accessible health sciences library. HSLIC is a source for better health information, which we believe can lead to better health.

Health disparities are a significant problem, and the library provides resources about them. The OMHRC Knowledge Center Online Catalog (Office of Minority Health Resource Center) gives access to 75,000 documents, books journal articles, and media related to the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations. PubMed searchers will find the MeSH terms Minority Health and Health Status Disparities, which were introduced in 2008. Note that there are other terms available to search the concepts prior to 2008.

Datasets are increasingly important and available to researchers. The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) contains physical, economic, demographic, and social information at the census tract, ZIP code, and county level. This dataset was used in a recent publication about the devaluation of assets in Black neighborhoods. As a minority majority state (with less than half the people being non-Hispanic whites), and home to 23 American Indian tribes, as well as Black and Asian people, minority health issues are important to New Mexico researchers, health care providers, and community leaders. The New Mexico Community Data Collaborative maps local health conditions and behaviors, as well as provides data about special populations, such as health care providers and rural vs urban designations.

Image from World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

04/02/2024
profile-icon Gale Hannigan

 

National Public Health Week 2024 celebrates collaboration, cooperation, and partnerships in public health. The theme is “Protecting, Connecting and Thriving: We Are All Public Health.”

At HSLIC, we make resources available that support research in the broad field of public health, and collaborate with faculty and educate students in the College of Population Health.  Ours is a strong partnership. These past two years, as part of a grant from the college to develop an Academic Health Department, HSLIC librarians extended services to New Mexico Department of Health (NM DOH) practitioners. Academic Health Departments are partnerships between an academic institution and a health department. A goal is to strengthen the links between practice and academia, with opportunities for joint education, research and practice.

Librarians developed training modules in the process of evidence-based public health practice. We regularly teach these skills throughout the health sciences professional programs' curricula. A team of librarians, some with public health degrees, customized training to the context of public health and created four modules, following the steps of the process. These included:

    • Module 1: Developing Searchable Questions
    • Module 2: Searching for Evidence
    • Modules 3: A Toolkit for Evaluating Evidence
    • Module 4:  A Toolkit for Applying Evidence

Modules 1 and 2 were offered synchronously online to NM DOH personnel last spring, and all modules are now available to anyone through the UNM Digital Repository at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/er/

In addition, HSLIC became the partner library for NM DOH's Public Health Digital Library, a project of the Network of the National Library of Medicine. This means that New Mexico public health personnel have access not only to the hundreds of books, journals, and databases in that library but, if an item is not available, HSLIC will provide it from our collection or from another library. This greatly extends the scope of information sources available to practitioners.

At HSLIC we recognize and support the valuable work of public health practitioners. We are all public health!

02/19/2024
profile-icon Deborah Rhue

Wise Health Care Consumer      Did you know that February is National Wise Health Care Consumer Month?                   

What is National Wise Health Care Consumer Month?  National Wise Health Care Consumer Month is a month dedicated to raising awareness and educating the public about how to make wise choices regarding their health care and become a better-informed consumer.  The American Institute for Preventive Medicine established this national observance because they realized that the American public struggles to make informed decisions about their health care.

The American Institute for Preventive Medicine recommends that consumers know the following when making health care decisions https://healthylife.com/wise/Wise_Health_Care_Consumer.pdf

  •  Know how to choose a health care plan
  •  Choose their care providers carefully and thoughtfully 
  • Communicate with their health care providers
  • Are comfortable asking questions, sharing concerns and negotiating costs   
  • Analyze and evaluate sources of health information
  • Practice preventive care 
  • Know when to treat themselves at home  
  • Understand their prescriptions and take them as directed 

Health literacy is an aspect of wise health care.  The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center offers Health Literacy workshops to interested faculty, students and HSC staff.  Our next workshop will take place on April 3, 2024.  If you are interested in attending this workshop, you can register at the link listed below.

 HSLIC Health Literacy Workshop, Health Literacy: Plain Language, Teach-Back and More, April 3, 2024, noon until 1:00 pm   https://goto.unm.edu/hslicevents

 

 

 

11/14/2023
profile-icon Melissa Rethlefsen

This past year, the UNM Health Science Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) and University Libraries teamed up so UNM researchers can gain access to The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program. Researchers can now gain access to all tiers of data after verifying identity and receiving mandatory training. Guidance for IRB application and templated language is available at: https://libguides.health.unm.edu/c.php?g=1359894&p=10042360

 

The All of Us Research Hub matches a broad research community with a diverse set of research participants. Its goal is to advance precision medicine research and fuel new insights into human health. The Research Hub houses one of the largest, most diverse, and most broadly accessible datasets ever assembled. It also provides an interactive Data Browser where anyone can learn about the type and quantity of data that All of Us collects. Users can explore aggregate data, including genomic variants, survey responses, physical measurements, electronic health record information, and wearables data. Registered users can use the Researcher Workbench to dive deeper into the data; conduct rapid, hypothesis-driven research; and build new methods for the future, using a variety of tools.

 

HSLIC and the University Libraries will be providing training sessions beginning in January 2024, but you can get started today. Support is available at https://support.researchallofus.org/hc/en-us, and the All of Us Research Program also provides weekly drop-in office hours. Learn more here: https://libguides.health.unm.edu/c.php?g=1359894

07/03/2023
profile-icon Gale Hannigan

Who knew there was a holiday every July 3 that encourages you to attend a movie or spend the day at the gym? A holiday to save your skin! These past few days have been HOT, and summer has just begun. It may not be practical to spend a day indoors, but give yourself and your skin a break and seek shade either indoors, under an umbrella or floppy hat, or in front of HSLIC in the early morning – and don’t forget those UV protection sunglasses.

The Solar UV index is the strength of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. Last week, the local UV index reached its most extreme level, which means to avoid the sun between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. when skin damage can happen in minutes. Check out the hourly UV index at your location at the EPA website UV Index.

We conducted a survey recently to get your feedback about how to make the front area of the HSLIC building more functional and inviting. The top three responses were: tables, improved aesthetics, and additional SHADE. We are listening and planning. Meanwhile, be smart in the sun.

05/19/2023
profile-icon Deborah Rhue

May is National Stroke Awareness Month! According to the National Institutes of Health, a 2018 National Health Interview Survey found that 7.8 million Americans have suffered from a stroke. For many years, the rate of strokes in the United States had declined, but due to rising rates of obesity, this decline has reversed, and the incidence of strokes in the United States is rising.

Studies show that there is a connection between high blood pressure, dementia, and stroke. Therefore, controlling high blood pressure has become an integral part of stroke prevention and awareness efforts.

Several prominent health organizations promote stroke awareness and provide guidelines for the lay public and health providers:

  • The American Heart Association: 

             https://www.heart.org/en/professional/quality-improvement/get-with-the-guidelines/get-with-the-guidelines-stroke

 

  • The American Stroke Association (a Division of the American Heart Association):

             https://www.stroke.org/en/about-the-american-stroke-association

             https://www.stroke.org/en/about-the-american-stroke-association/stroke-awareness-month

 

  • The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke:

             https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/directors-messages/all-directors-messages/may-stroke-awareness-month-1

 

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

             https://www.cdc.gov/stroke/index.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05/17/2023
Rachel Howarth

In 1983, the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition declared May National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.  Each President since has recognized May as a month to advocate for Americans to adopt healthy lifestyles.  President Biden issued a Proclamation in 2021 stating “No matter our age or ability, the more that we can make regular physical activity and participation in sports a part of our lives, the better off both we and our Nation will be.”  

The library might not be the first place you think of for physical fitness, but the HSLIC front desk offers all kinds of sports equipment for checkout:

  • Spikeball sets
  • OgoDisk sets 
  • Soccer Ball 
  • Basketball 
  • Volleyball 
  • Football 
  • Kickball 
  • Jump Rope 
  • Hacky Sack 
  • Frisbee 

Kumal Mankad, a first year student in the MD program, plays Spikeball with fellow students on their break between classes.  They were inspired by the PT students who often play out on the lawn in front of the library. Kumal says physical fitness is very important to him, but it has to be scheduled into his busy week in advance: “I try to set up at least 3 times for physical activities in my planner every week.  It’s not easy.  I’ve seen some students write in ‘Please go to gym’ between meetings or classes.”  He also said that he appreciates that the Library provides exercise equipment “Having equipment available at the library makes it much easier to get exercise.” 

Students can also take advantage of a basketball court located behind the library, a 2-mile trail around the UNM North Golf Course just down the street, and standing desk treadmills on the library's 3rd floor.

Selected ebooks regarding physical fitness available at our library include:

          Esteves, D., & Lewis, K. (Eds.). (2021). Exercise: physical, physiological and psychological benefits Nova Medicine & Health.

          Robbins, J.E., & Madrigal, L. (2017). Sport, exercise, and performance psychology: bridging theory and application. Springer Publishing Company, LLC.

          Trevisano, Q (Ed.). (2020). Physical fitness and exercise: an overview. Nova Science.

Additional Sports and Fitness resources: 

          US Department of Health and Human Services “Move in May”

          City of Albuquerque Parks & Recreation

          UNM Health Sciences Center HSC Wellness

04/22/2023
Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski

April 22, 2023, is recognized annually as earth day. It began as a national day for action in the 1970s and has now grown not only to reach a global audience but to be a large day of awareness, celebration, and observance.

Environmental health and our climate are linked to our individual and community health outcomes. In celebration of Earth Day 2023, I would like to highlight an exciting partnership. Since the spring of 2022, I have been able to have a role in the Interprofessional Education course, Climate change and public health preparedness. It will be offered again this summer, and I am also currently a part of a multi-disciplinary teaching team that is piloting a planetary health and systems thinking course. I’m thankful for the work and collaboration opportunities with Heidi Honegger Rogers, DNP, FNP-C, APHN-C, Caroline Scruggs, PhD, PE, Megan Tucker, MS, PhD Student, Claudia Pratesi, PhD, MCRP, MWR, & Amanda Dunn, DNP,RN,FNP-C. Most importantly, the work of our UNM students engaged in these classes continues to be inspiring and hopeful.

Selected resources regarding our environment available at our library:

Environmental Health Literacy

Planetary health : human health in an era of global environmental change

Community organizing and community building for health and social equity

Learn more about earth day:

One Albuquerque: Earth Day Guide

Earth Day

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

 

03/28/2023
Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month-Green Banner

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Brain injuries are a public health issue that impacts more than 5 million people in the U.S. living with a permanent brain injury-related disability, according to the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). With such a large number of Americans living with a brain injury, caregivers and family members are also impacted, and we would like to recognize them as well. 

 An Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) occurs after birth and can be either traumatic or non-traumatic. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an alteration in brain function caused by trauma or some external force. They can range from mild to severe. A TBI is usually caused by a fall, a firearm-related injury, a motor vehicle crash, or an assault.

 

According to the CDC:

We recognize the importance of those living with disabilities sharing their own experiences and would like to share the following link with personal stories.

If you are a member of the UNM community who may have experienced a brain injury, the Accessibility Resource Center can help you with support and resources.

09/07/2022
Brandon Carroll

You are invited to join us on Thursday, September 15th from 10 to 11 AM, for a virtual seminar by Deborah L. Lauseng, AMLS

Topic: Roles, Collaborations, and Activities in Health Informatics Education - a discussion of scoping review findings and your own involvement

Description: Librarians and libraries have been engaged in informatics training for decades, however, sharing of the types and extent of engagement has been limited in the literature. The scoping review, “Library involvement in health informatics education for health professions students and practitioners,” published in JMLA, seeks to explore the extent library involvement in health informatics education, specifically focused on activities and outcomes described in the published literature.

 

In this BioMISS session, the lead author will share findings on the roles, collaborations, and activities librarians have had in health informatics beyond instruction. The author will lead a discussion about current and potential collaborations. Additionally, attendees will explore how best to report their involvement with health informatics to inform the profession.

 

Learning objectives

  • Participants will gain insights into the extent and nature of librarian/information professional involvement with health informatics as discovered through this scoping review. 

  • Participants will explore potentials of collaboration with health informatics activities in their own work. 

  • Participants will discuss generating a standardized template for reporting librarian/information professional involvement in informatics educational activities. 

 

Please email BLCarroll@salud.unm.edu to request Zoom info.

06/27/2022
profile-icon Jonathan Pringle

Four individuals outdoors talking about National HIV Testing Day

Today is National HIV Testing Day. First observed on June 27, 1995, this is an annual day designed to encourage people to get tested for HIV, know their status, and get linked to care and treatment. 

The theme for 2022, “HIV Testing is Self-care.” The World Health Organization defines self-care as “the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a healthcare provider.” is timely, given that self-care has been a particularly important topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also timely as the need for individual and community actions to promote physical and mental health remain critical.

HIV testing is an act of self-care. According to the CDC, encouraging people to get tested and know their HIV status can help them stay healthy. Today, there are more free, easy, fast, and confidential HIV testing options available than ever before. Testing, including self-testing, is the first step to engaging in HIV prevention or treatment services. HIV testing is a critical tool to helping us end the HIV epidemic in the United States.

Watch this Taking the Test is Taking Care of You video to learn more about HIV testing and self-care.

Currently, CDC and many other organizations are distributing free HIV self-testing kits . You can find more information about HIV testing on our HIV Testing Overview page.

Content courtesy of HIV.gov

06/03/2021
Kelleen Maluski

Image of people doing different activities in the rainbow colors of UNM

For Pride 2021 the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center is excited to announce a newly updated Research Guide for LGBTQIA+ Health Resources. This guide is intended to be used as a resource for researchers, students, and faculty to help them in providing care and conducting appropriate research with the LGBTQIA+ community. The guide has many resources but it also gives contextual information on the various communities represented with this term and regarding our terminology.

The LGBTQIA+ Health Resources Guide was created by Anna Cibils, Library Services Specialist and Nursing student and Kelleen Maluski, your Student Success & Engagement Librarian. Anna and Kelleen were excited and grateful to put together this guide with input from multiple stakeholders from UNM, UNM HSC, and the larger New Mexico community. Both Anna and Kelleen are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community as bisexual cis women and know how important it is to see representation that doesn't take a "one size fits all" approach to research for such a large community. If you have any thoughts, comments, or questions about the guide feel free to email Kelleen!

This Guide is part of a larger effort from the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center to offer contextual and thoughtful review of conducting research with marginalized and historically excluded communities. In addition to updating our Research Guides we have also formed the Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Committee made up of members from the faculty, staff, and students of UNM and UNM HSC and curated our databases in a Health Justice & Equity subject section. If you would like to let us know how the library can continue to provide welcoming and inclusive spaces and resources for all please let us know at this anonymous survey!

04/11/2021
profile-icon Deborah Rhue

 

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You are invited to attend a Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center seminar on health literacy entitled “Health Literacy Tips: Plain Language, Teach-Back and More…”

This online seminar will explore the benefits of using teach-back and plain language for patient care as well as a discussion regarding the health literacy needs of patients in New Mexico.  The first seminar will be offered on Friday, April 16, 2021, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, and will be repeated on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, from 12:00 until 1:00 pm.

To register for either seminar, please go here.

If you have questions, contact Deborah Rhue.

04/05/2021
profile-icon Gale Hannigan

It’s National Public Health Week and, especially in the midst of a pandemic, we acknowledge the many efforts and achievements of public health practitioners, educators, students, policy makers, and researchers. Members of the UNM HSC community have been involved in a range of significant COVID-related activities, from genomic epidemiology to statewide leadership in controlling the spread of infection.

This pandemic highlights the important work of modern public health, work that has been going on since the 19th century with efforts to identify, understand, and control infectious diseases. Education, sanitation, and vaccine development and use are population-level interventions that have controlled or eradicated many devastating diseases worldwide.

Information management is key to public health practice. Research, data collection and analysis, communication, and coordination of community activities all depend on valid, current information. The term “infodemic” became popular last year because of the overwhelming volume of new information that appeared in the published and unpublished literature, in the media, and on social networks. Not all of the information was correct, some of it was the best that was known at the time but subsequently disputed.

It is challenging to sort out facts from speculation and stay abreast of the breakthroughs in knowledge. Members of HSLIC worked with others in the HSC to provide up-to-date information early on by sorting through and evaluating emerging information. We developed several research guides related to pandemic information. These include: Communicating in a Healthcare Setting During COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Research, Free Resources During COVID19 Disruptions, Health Statistics and Demographics, and Evaluating Resources.

COVID has upended our individual lives. Members of the public health community have had the extra burden of working tirelessly on behalf of all of us. This week we appreciate the dedication of the public health workforce and the critical importance of public health.

06/08/2020
profile-icon Jonathan Pringle

Lying face down, arms shackled and our wrists behind our backs with invisible handcuffs. Five minutes into the die-in protest we wondered, “How did George Floyd feel?”

Our experiences bore only the vaguest resemblance to Mr. Floyd’s. We were lying on a lawn in front of the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) below a blue sky with over 200 others. Bearing down on Mr. Floyd were three Minneapolis police officers. One officer, Derek Chauvin, jammed his knee directly on Mr. Floyd’s neck. While we could breathe on that lawn, Mr. Floyd could only gasp for his life, “I can’t breathe!”

On Thursday, June 4th at 12:00 p.m. the UNM White Coats for Black & Indigenous Lives sponsored a Die In Protest on the lawn in front of HSLIC. The event was catalyzed by the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breonna Tayler in Kentucky, and George Floyd in Minnesota. In addition to a sobering and powerful 8 minutes and 45 seconds, organizers and speakers took turns detailing a series of demands for HSC administration, including:

  • Addressing underrepresentation of Indigenous people and African Americans in the medical field
  • Withdrawing funding (if any) to the ABQ Police Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and NM correctional institutions
  • Supporting "racial-based" data collection to show how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Indigenous and Black communities

The authors of this blog post were on hand to not only observe and take photos, but to also participate in the protest. We are both cisgender, white males with significantly more privilege than those at the heart of this protest. We wish to share what, for us, was a profoundly moving event.

Jon Eldredge & Jonathan Pringle

 

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Protest Looking Northeast. Jon Eldredge, June 4, 2020.

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Protest Event Signs. Jonathan Pringle, June 4, 2020.

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Protest Looking West. Jonathan Pringle, June 4, 2020.

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Protest Looking Northeast. Jon Eldredge, June 4, 2020.

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Protesters Lying Down Looking Southwest. Jon Eldredge, June 4, 2020.

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Protest Looking Northeast. Jonathan Pringle, June 4, 2020.

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Protest Looking Southwest. Jon Eldredge, June 4, 2020.