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
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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!
Co-pay Update on Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)
For the 2020-2021 policy year, the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) provider, Aetna, implemented a change in the co-pay structure of visits. In previous plan years, students were responsible for a 10% co-pay for office visits. A benefit change was implemented for the current plan year, and the co-pay is now a flat $20. The…Continue Reading Co-pay Update on Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)
MySHR Troubleshooting Guide
NOW AVAILABLE—Looking for instructions on uploading documentation? Having difficulties logging in to MySHR? The troubleshooting guide to MySHR can help you resolve common obstacles to logging in, uploading documents, understanding test results, and more….Continue Reading MySHR Troubleshooting Guide
MySHR scheduled maintenance
MySHR will be temporarily unavailable between 8:30-9:30 PM PST on the following Saturday evenings, on the following dates: February 20 • March 20 • April 17 • May 15 • June 19 • July 17 • August 21 • September 18 • October 16 • November 20 • December 18. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience….Continue Reading MySHR scheduled maintenance
COVID-19 Vaccinations Come to UPC
As part of the 1A phase of the vaccination roll-out, health professional students, faculty and staff who are in direct contact with patients or collected specimens have been invited to sign-up for their vaccinations at the Lyons Center. Those in the 1A phase include faculty, staff and students of the Keck School of Medicine, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, and the USC School of Pharmacy. The dental faculty, students, and staff were also invited as the first group to be vaccinated at UPC. Dean Avishai Sadan and Associate Dean Douglas Solow were on hand to support their students as they were vaccinated. The Ostrow School not only were the patients in the vaccine rollout, they were also actively assisting, sending dozens of D.D.S. students to volunteer in preparing the vaccines in the USC Student Health immunization clinic and assisting at the vaccine site….Continue Reading COVID-19 Vaccinations Come to UPC