AJPH: Professor Sprague Martinez, Scott, & Colleagues Report on Success of Community-Based COVID Workshop
Community-based workshops allow groups to process collective traumas like the COVID-19 pandemic together. In a recent article for the American Journal of Public Health, BU School of Social Work Professor Linda Sprague Martinez and Judith Scott and their colleagues shared data from a recent applied photovoice workshop. The project worked with staff and leadership from […]
STAT: Professor Sprague Martinez Says Long Covid Amplifies Existing Health Inequities
In an article exploring the prevalence and effects of the symptom cluster known as long Covid, STAT looks to Associate Professor Linda Sprague Martinez of Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) to understand the societal impact. Excerpt from “Estimates of long Covid are startlingly high. Here’s how to understand them” by Elizabeth Cooney, originally […]
Harvard Medicine News: Health Equity Expert Professor Sprague Martinez Discusses Long COVID
As the medical community continues to learn more about the long-term effects of COVID-19 at the scientific level, it is crucial that social workers have a seat at the table to analyze the virus’s social and health care policy implications. To this end, Professor Linda Sprague Martinez spoke at a Harvard University press conference with […]
Professor Sprague Martinez Leads Health Equity Core for Long Covid Project at Harvard Medical School
Health equity expert Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, an associate professor at BU School of Social Work, is bringing her expertise to a new working group researching Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 – a now-pervasive condition commonly referred to as “long COVID.” The working group is part of Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness which […]
The Boston Globe: Professor Sprague Martinez on How Racial Capitalism Affects Diagnosis & Treatment of Long COVID for People of Color
In an article published by The Boston Globe – which was followed by a letter to the editor from two Boston University School of Social Work faculty – reporter Felice J. Freyer gets insight from Associate Professor Linda Sprague Martinez on why clinics are seeing “mostly middle-class white women” for the lingering COVID-19 symptoms known […]