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Donna Gaffney

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Los Angeles
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Covers:  Trauma, loss, mental health of children families and Healthcare professionals. Well-being of individuals.
Doesn't Cover: Medical practice topics

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Donna A. Gaffney, DNSc, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, is a psychotherapist, advanced practice psychiatric mental health clinician, and affiliated professor at Hunter College in New York City. She previously served on the faculty at Columbia University. Donna has long addressed stress, loss, and trauma in the lives of adults and children, communities, and healthcare professionals — providing clinical and educational interventions in the aftermath of personal trauma and crisis as well as national disasters su…

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Opinion: When voting rights are weakened, health suffers

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By Donna Gaffney, Terri Mills
| Asheville Citizen Times Verified
The next major threat to Americans’ health may not come from a virus or a shuttered hospital. It may come from how or whether we are allowed to vote. On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court  issued a decision weakening enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a cornerstone civil rights law that has protected equitable representation for decades.
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Opinion: When voting rights are weakened, health suffers

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By Donna Gaffney, Teri Mills
| Aol Verified
The next major threat to Americans’ health may not come from a virus or a shuttered hospital. It may come from how or whether we are allowed to vote. On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court  issued a decision weakening enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a cornerstone civil rights law that has protected equitable representation for decades.
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Commentary: The need for heard (not a typo) immunity

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By Donna Gaffney
| Wyoming Tribune Eagle Verified
On April 26, 1954, Janice Nichols rolled up her sleeve and became part of the largest vaccine trial in history. That year, 1.8 million first- to third-graders were vaccinated for polio across 44 U.S. states, Canada and Finland. At the time she entered the research study, Nichols was 6 years old. She had already survived polio herself, and was grieving the death of her twin brother, who had died just days before she contracted the disease in 1953.
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