Isabelle Kusters
@DrIKusters
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Public Health faculty. Social Determinants of Health, immigrant health, language services, access to care, health policy. 🇧🇪🇮🇷
Joined May 2016
Out today in JAMA Psychiatry- the impact of a rapid switch to virtual mental health care on veteran groups. Significant disparities between rural and urban pops, especially AI/AN veterans. @janlindsayphd @AmyAmspoker_PhD @IQuEStHouston @vahsrd
Although rapid virtualization in response to the #COVID19 pandemic broadly increased video telehealth use, specific veteran groups, including American Indian/Alaska Native veterans in rural areas, may be at risk for access disparities.
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UHCL's very own Dr. Isabelle Kusters authored an article discussing rural-urban disparities that has been published in JAMA Psychiatry, part of the Journal of the @AmerMedicalAssn’s network. Click the link for the article. ➡️ https://t.co/vafB2CdN0W
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Veterans from American Indian and Alaska Native populations have a strong tradition of serving in the military, enlisting at the highest rate per capita of any ethnic or racial group. Yet this...
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What influence will differences in access to research time and disparities in childcare burden have on academics in the future? How will we stop the pipeline from leaking, or careers from stagnating, if we don’t recognize the impact Covid has had on parents, particularly mothers?
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"Well-intentioned policies tend not to benefit women as much or in the same ways as they do men."
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In a 2021 study, a team at Deloitte measured trust levels of 5,000 U.S. employees across job types and industries. They found that while women and men enter the workforce with essentially the same...
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Proud to share this new publication: a timely and important (student-led!) project to inform training recommendations for improving quality of care. Great collaboration with Abigail Berk, @BecomingDrP, @DrMeganGregory
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Anyone trying to have in person meetings needs to understand #CovidIsNotOver just because you say it is. If you tell people, we will have no added layers of protection but you can just stay home if you aren't comfortable, you are excluding the vulnerable and disabled.
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NEW STUDY: Our Health Policy Scholar @DrIKusters, w/ our Sr. RA @_AMGutierrez & collabs review spanish-language COVID-19 website info vs info in English provided by health departments of the top 10 cities. Take a read:
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Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new urgency to a longstanding problem: the US health system is not well-equipped to accommodate the...
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Latest Article Assessment of COVID-19 Website Communication in Languages Other than English by Local Health Departments in the United States @DrIKusters @_AMGutierrez @BCMEthics @UHClearLake
https://t.co/hEhvcw60so
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Managing the information needs of diverse populations through accessible, high-quality, and evidence-based health communication is critical to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to comprehen...
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New findings indicate a gap by local health departments to address issues re: equitable multilingual, multimodal #emergency #communication & underscore need from our HP Scholar @DrIKusters @UHClearLake & our RA @_AMGutierrez with collabs https://t.co/YAvEQvc2zl
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Our paper, out today, examines whether local #health departments are providing #equitable #COVID19 information to their limited English proficient constituents in their preferred language ( https://t.co/ssJfdLsP1w)
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.@UHCLHSH faculty are taking over NPR's @AcademicMinute Podcast to share their research contributions toward today's leading societal challenges. Listen to @DrIKusters today, & Drs. Desdamona Rios, Se-Hyoung Yi and @McBeester this week. #UHCL #ResearchHighlight #NPR #Podcast
On University of Houston Clear-Lake (@UHClearLake) Week: COVID-19 has brought many unseen social impacts to the fore. Isabelle Kusters, assistant professor of exercise and health science, examines one of these. https://t.co/tQkBRpHz1r
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Thank you @PeterHotez for joining us today! #UHCL faculty experts in healthcare, nursing, social sciences are now expanding on #PublicHealth issues and their impact on #HigherEducation. #UHCLBigQuestions
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#UHCL faculty Dr. Femi Ayadi and @DrIKusters join the conversation with Dr. Hotez to discuss the outlook on the pandemic for 2021 with implications for the economy, education & access to #healthcare for underprivileged communities. #UHCLBigQuestions #PublicHealth #Pandemic
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During this #NationalPublicHealthWeek, join us on Friday morning for a talk by @PeterHotez and a faculty panel discussion on #COVID, #PublicHealth, and higher education. Register at https://t.co/1p0W2slcqj
@UHClearLake @UHCLHSH
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Norooz mobarak! Happy Iranian new year! Happy spring! May this year bring us all health and joy. #Norooz1400 #Nowruz
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