Regis College has been awarded $820,000 from the Wagner Foundation to continue the university’s critical work through the Regis In Haiti program. The grant will support the next phase of Regis’ collaboration with partners in Haiti to establish a new, groundbreaking Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program to improve health access, equity, and outcomes in […]

Local Global Connection: Adding an International Lens to Your Domestic Portfolio

“The #MeToo movement went international recently as a chorus of voices called attention to gender inequities in the fields of global health and development. Laurie Garrett took aim at the power imbalance in public health in her piece on foreign policy. A Twitter storm was unleashed after Duncan Green posted an all-male list of ten […]

Agustín Rodríguez was a quiet, deeply religious man originally from El Salvador. He worked in a pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he had a rough job sawing the legs off of dead pigs. He spent most of his time with his wife, Angelita, whom he married a month after they met […]

Racial violence, police brutality, and other forms of racism don’t just affect the physical safety of Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous people—racism also affects mental health.Yet, for many people of color, mental health care remains costly, hard to access, and stigmatized. Panelists discussed these challenges and more during a virtual event organized by Partners In […]