From day one of distribution to today, Trojans have been delivering vaccines to hard-hit communities, volunteering at mega-sites and ensuring that hundreds of thousands of shots get into arms. The numbers tell the story: Since Pfizer received emergency approval for its COVID-19 vaccine in mid-December, quick efforts by USC have contributed to more than 800,000 people in Los Angeles getting inoculated….Continue Reading When COVID-19 vaccinations began, the USC community sprang into action
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Leadership Message on SAAM and Denim Day
This April, as we acknowledge Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), we are sharing with you some information and resources to become better educated and aware of sexual assault and sexual and gender-based harassment, and the resources on campus that are available for survivors. SAAM offers a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss this difficult and important topic throughout the month of April, and will culminate with a day to show support for survivors on Denim Day, April 28. We encourage all students to learn about these resources, use our toolkit to spark conversations on preventing sexual and gender-based harm and how to be an upstander, and encourage others to learn more. For the survivors, we acknowledge your courage and resilience, and hope the resources through our programs and services will help support you in moving toward healing. We know we can, and will, and must, do more, until relationship-based, sexually-based, gender-based, and power-based harm is eliminated from our community….Continue Reading Leadership Message on SAAM and Denim Day
COVID-19 Early Spring Update
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has recently updated its advisory regarding travel, in light of the County’s recent reclassification to the less restrictive Orange Tier in the State of California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. …Continue Reading COVID-19 Early Spring Update
Information, Privacy and Open Notes in MySHR
As part of a national movement to provide patients with information and access about their health, USC Student Health will begin implementation of “Open Notes” in the health records in its patient portal, MySHR. Beginning April 5, 2021, all patients with records in MySHR will be able to access notes that are entered by health care providers. This is an alignment with the implementation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Cures Act Final Rule….Continue Reading Information, Privacy and Open Notes in MySHR
COVID-19 Vaccination Eligibility Milestones
As Los Angeles County has moved into the Orange Tier—indicating “moderate” transmission of COVID-19—and vaccination rates in Los Angeles continue to trend in the direction that take us further into broad re-openings, we are thankful to our community for making safe precautions a priority as we move forward. Regarding COVID-19 vaccines, LA County has recently announced that April 1 will open vaccine eligibility to individuals over the age of 50 and April 15 will open vaccine eligibility to all over the age of 16….Continue Reading COVID-19 Vaccination Eligibility Milestones
Sexual Assault Awareness and Denim Day
Denim Day is the last Wednesday of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April), raising awareness and encouraging people to wear jeans with a purpose, support survivors of sexual assault, and educate themselves and others about all forms of sexual violence and gender-based harm. Learn more about Denim Day and USC’s Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention and Services, a unit of Counseling and Mental Health Services in USC Student Health, the campus resource for students, providing advocate services (24/7) to survivors of sexual assault and gender-based harm; providing mental health services, and promoting prevention education programs for students and student-serving departments….Continue Reading Sexual Assault Awareness and Denim Day
Forthcoming curriculum guide incorporating LGBTQ+ issues and views
As we mark Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, we are pleased to share with you an update from the work of our Coordinated Campus Response Team (CCRT), organized to work collectively across the university to increase LGBTQ+ specific services. Together they have developed structural supports for the LGBTQ+ community, which is especially vulnerable to sexual assault and sexual harassment. The CCRT team is currently preparing a curriculum guide that is intended to help faculty incorporate discussion of the concerns and experiences of this often-marginalized community. The guide will be released this summer, and we encourage any faculty who are interested in receiving this guide to sign up for updates and to receive a copy of the guide when it is published….Continue Reading Forthcoming curriculum guide incorporating LGBTQ+ issues and views
Wellness Day April 7th
A spring Wellness Day is coming up on April 7th—join the Counseling and Mental Health team to ease into the second half of the semester. Take a moment to refresh yourself with a 30 minute CMH Wellness Workshop, ranging from stress management to mindfulness to wellness through art. Sign up for any of these workshop activities through https://usc.edu/myshr….Continue Reading Wellness Day April 7th
Three vaccines to help end the pandemic
As with the mRNA-based vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna), the viral vector-based J&J/Janssen vaccine is highly effective, with an 85% efficacy rate of preventing severe symptoms. As the clinical trials periods of the J&J vaccine was run to a later end date (when new variants were beginning circulation) than the mRNA vaccines, the results are not directly comparable. We encourage all USC employees and eligible students who meet current criteria to pursue avenues throughout the County and the public sites to get vaccinated at the earliest availability….Continue Reading Three vaccines to help end the pandemic
COVID-19 Take home kits available today!
Feb 17—Pick up convenient home kits to provide saliva samples in the privacy of your home (three kits person max). Kits are available in Pappas Quad (HSC) and Lab/Figueroa (UPC) locations. Appointments to drop off kits—within 12 hours of sample collection—may be made in MySHR….Continue Reading COVID-19 Take home kits available today!