Elcy’s Voice

This audio breaks down NASA’s TEAM II initiative, including STEM Innovator and Community Anchor awards, and how these programs help students access science, technology, engineering, and math opportunities beyond the classroom.

Learn how museums, libraries, and community organizations are helping inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators.

🔗 More info: stem.nasa.gov

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Article link: www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-…h-stem-engagement/

The goal of All of Us is to speed up health research discoveries, enabling new kinds of individualized health care. To make this possible, the program is building one of the world’s largest and most diverse databases for health research.

By working with participants across the country, collecting many types of information over time, and building a data platform that many researchers can use, All of Us may also shape how people do research in the future.

The All of Us Research Program is part of an effort to advance individualized health care by enrolling one million or more participants to contribute their health data over many years. The program aims to reflect the diversity of the United States and to include participants from groups that have been underrepresented in health research in the past. The program is developing custom tools and software to help researchers analyze participant data while keeping information secure. Working together, All of Us researchers, partners, and participants aim to build a better future for health care. Learn more about All of Us.

WISE CHOICES: https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2021/05/childhood-arthritis

Here’s what you can expect:

National Health Observances (NHOs) are special days, weeks, or months dedicated to raising awareness about important health topics. Each month, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion features select NHOs that align with their priorities for improving health across the Nation. I hope you’ll promote these NHOs with your networks and help us advocate for better health!

https://health.gov/news/category/national-health-observances

Every two minutes someone is diagnosed with leprosy. It causes nerve damage and muscle weakness that can lead to deformities, crippling, blindness, and isolation.

Every day, more than 40 girls and boys around the world are diagnosed with leprosy. Many more will miss early detection and diagnosis because of stigma, fear, and lack of medical expertise.

But leprosy can be cured. If it’s detected early, suffering and disabilities can be prevented.

Many Americans think leprosy no longer exists.

But, in 2019, 115 countries reported new cases of leprosy.

In the U.S., about 150 to 250 cases are still reported each year.

Leprosy can develop at any age but appears to develop most often in people aged 5 to 15 years or over 30.

For more information about World Leprosy Day contact the American Leprosy Missions at leprosy.org

or visit the Centers for Disease Control @ www.cdc.gov/leprosy/

Together, we can put a stop to discrimination and stigma against people with Leprosy; learn to recognize symptoms and know when to see a physician for a diagnosis.