SPH This Week.
August 22, 2021
Must Reads.
Q&A
For the first time since March 2020, all SPH faculty, staff, and students will return to campus this fall. Ira Lazic, associate dean for administration & finance, discusses the factors that shaped the school's plan to resume in-person teaching, learning, and working.
ACTIVIST LABA catalyst for bold public health practice, the Activist Lab at SPH equips individuals with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to fight inequities and create conditions for a world in which all people can reach their full potential. |
RESEARCHLowering the 'standard of care' during the pandemic has led to inadequate care and discriminatory practices, write George Annas and Sondra Crosby. |
RESEARCH
Racial disparities in COVID-19 incidence among Black communities in the Commonwealth may have decreased in the first eight months of the pandemic, but Latinx residents and essential workers remained at an elevated risk for exposure and infection.
Opinion.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
the turning point.
Think. Teach. Do.
SCHOOL NEWS
The program works to create a culture among faculty, staff, and students at SPH that values writing as a process and a skill to be honed over time through deliberate practice.
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTThe poet, writer, and essayist is the social media and community engagement specialist for Sins Invalid, a disability justice performance project. |
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SCHOOL NEWS
Andree Entezari, program assistant in the Office of Lifelong Learning, helps enable local home cooks to sell food they make.
ALUMNI NEWSIn his new role, Alberto Cardelle hopes to lower barriers to equitable access, increase opportunities for students, and position the school as an advocate for economic and community development. |
RESEARCHA new study found that Black women with deficient levels of vitamin D had a 69 percent increased risk of COVID-19 infection than women with sufficient vitamin D levels. |
In the Media.
WASHINGTON POST
Article written by Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology and doctoral student Ruby Barnard-Mayers
THE CONVERSATION
Article by Julia Raifman, assistant professor of health law, policy & management and Alexandra Skinner, research fellow of health law, policy & management
WBUR
Interview with Davidson Hamer, professor of global health
BBC NEWS
Interview with Jonathan Jay, assistant professor of community health sciences
TIME
Quotes Dean Sandro Galea
SELF
Quotes Wendy Mariner, emeritus professor of health law, policy & management
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