Author Archives: Carrie Henning-Smith, Mariana Tuttle, & Katy Backes Kozhimannil

About Carrie Henning-Smith, Mariana Tuttle, & Katy Backes Kozhimannil

Mariana is a Researcher at the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center. She has a Master of Public Health (MPH '19) in Health Policy & Administration from the University of Minnesota. Throughout graduate school, Ms. Tuttle worked on health policy-relevant research, analysis, and dissemination efforts at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the MN Department of Human Services, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her research centers on health equity for all rural residents, and covers an array of rural health topics, from social determinants of health, to maternity care, to aging, and access to and quality of care.

Racism and Rurality in COVID-19 Burden

The inequitable distribution of COVID-19’s terrible burden has been well documented. There are notable disparities by race and ethnicity. COVID-19 rates, including incidence and fatality rates, are higher among Black, Indigenous, and other Persons of Color (BIPOC). This is structural racism at its worst, in which BIPOC individuals are disproportionately represented among essential workers and… Read More »