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The Affordable Care Act Update – It faced its third challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 10, 2020, and will most likely remain intact according to the policy experts, given the comments of two conservative justices. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that the individual mandate provision could be eliminated without striking down ACA entirely. The ACA was supported by the liberal justices.

NHMA salutes the new Biden-Harris Administration and will work to continue to educate our Hispanic community and others on health prevention to decrease COVID-19, increasing vaccine confidence, diversity in clinical trials, and develop the mentoring for the pipeline and new Latino health professionals with our National Hispanic Health Professionals Leadership Network leaders. In addition, NHMA looks forward to working with the US Department of Health and Human Services on a Latino health initiative to build healthy communities across the nation.

NHMA applauds the 3 Latinos who were named as White House leaders in the Biden Administration and hope to see more Latinos appointed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which has been targeted for increased support from the new administration, given the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage Latino health professionals to see the PLUM Book for the 4000 Biden Administration appointments in full-time positions and commissions.

NHMA Education and Advocacy for COVID-19 started in March 2020 and will continue. We welcome your recommended articles and reports and speakers for our continued Virtual Briefings to start again in January 2021. Read more information here. 

We encourage you to visit the NHMA PORTAL for resources on COVID-19 and other issues:

HispanicHealth.info

Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities - new website for researchers

From a year of devastating hurricanes and wildfires and record breaking temperatures, to a mountain of evidence based science, it’s clear climate change is threatening our livelihoods. This extreme weather is devastating our health, environment and climate. Rollback after rollback by the Trump administration have only made matters worse. We cannot continue our current course of inaction - it is #TimeToAct. From the President, to Congress to local leaders, it is #TimeToAct on climate. 

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We are seeking physicians and health care providers that treat Hispanic/Latinx patients to create a short video on cardiovascular disease and the importance of being heart healthy, and physicians and providers treating Hispanic/Latinx patients with HIV to create a short video on the importance of HIV prevention/treatment. We are also seeking physicians to discuss COVID-19 and treating patients with the virus.

Check out other educational videos our members have done on COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, HIV, and more, on our YouTube channel.

For more than 30 years, Pfizer has been helping eligible US patients in need get access to their Pfizer medicines through a range of assistance programs. Recently, Pfizer launched a new online enrollment platform to make it easier for patients and their health care providers to get access to select Pfizer medicines. The platform, known as Pfizer PAP Connect, could not have come at a better time, given the stay-at-home orders executed across the country due to COVID-19 that have constrained patients from seeing their health care providers. The online enrollment option can be used for many of the most commonly requested primary care medications available through the Pfizer Patient Assistance Program (PPAP), which provides certain free Pfizer medicines to eligible insured and uninsured patients through their doctor’s office or at home.

“In order to better serve our patients, we are pleased to provide a platform that enables patients to apply to the program and check on application status as well as product delivery  24-7, all online,” said Niesha Foster, Vice President, Product Access at Pfizer.  Read more.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated several key issues among the Hispanic population that warrant attention from leaders in both public and private health care sectors, as well as leaders in our communities. Hispanics are 18% of the population yet account for 33% of new COVID-19 cases nationwide. Read more here.

If you are interested in learning more about this program, how it could be implemented or experience in current engagements, please email Hoy Health at [email protected], or [email protected].

The University of Mississippi Center (UMMC) Department of Preventative Medicine is accepting applications for their Preventive Medicine Residency Program from November through January. For more information, go here.