<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2020/yanice-mendez-fernandez-covid.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>04/27/2020</pubDate><title>Biology Professor, Public Health Graduate Student Raising a Voice for the Vulnerable During the Coronavirus Pandemic</title><description>In an opinion piece published in Puerto Rico’s most widely read newspaper, lecturer Yanice Mendez-Fernandez ’21 MPH called on officials to not forget the displaced and homeless populations impacted by COVID-19.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey, contributing writer</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>April 27, 2020</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2020/yanice-mendez-fernandez-covid.jpg" alt="Image of Yanice Mendez-Fernandez ’21 MPH"/></image><image-caption>Yanice Mendez-Fernandez ’21 MPH</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2020</tag></tags></item>