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| SPH THIS WEEK | SPECIAL EDITION |
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| PHX: Virtual Summer institute |
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| Essentials of Population Health Research |
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| Get a virtual introduction to the data, tools, and methods of population health research drawing on theory and methods from epidemiology, biostatistics, and the broader social sciences. |
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| School News |
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| Professor, Student Recognized for Data-Driven Research |
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| As Hariri Institute of Computing fellows, Prasad Patil, assistant professor of biostatistics, and Jianing Wang, a doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, will further their research and connect with other experts in the computational and data sciences field. |
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| PUBLIC HEALTH POST |
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| the turning point. |
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| Public Health Post |
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| Juvenile Injustice |
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| The juvenile justice system is in the midst of massive reform, but how do LGBTQ+ youth get into the system? What happens once there? |
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| Published on 2/20/2020 |
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| Taking Stock of Democracy, Voting, and Health |
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| One hundred years after women gained the right to vote, contemporary barriers to voting still prevent them from shaping a representative government that values their health. |
| Published on 11/15/2018 |
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| The 'Yes on 3' Fight Showed Us We Are Not Alone |
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| We found the way to defend transgender rights, we won by a landslide, and along the way, we made a space where trans, gender nonconforming, and other queer people could feel confident, safe, and strong enough to announce who they really were. |
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| Published on 11/24/20 |
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| Queer Teens Say ‘Physical Sex Is Over for Now’ |
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| Amid COVID dangers and lockdowns, sexual minority teen boys are hooking up far less and watching more porn, sexting and using men-seeking-men apps about the same as before the pandemic, and experiencing more mental health challenges. |
| Published on 11/3/20 |
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| Trans Rights by State Lines |
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| Sarah Lipson has been selected as a William T. Grant Scholar to support her research on how campus policies shape mental health inequities for gender minority students. |
| Published on 7/15/20 |
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| Who's Checking In? |
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| Gay and bisexual teens of color living in red states and in the South face additional barriers, namely that their providers avoid discussing sexual health. |
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| Published on 6/16/20 |
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| ‘A Transformative Ruling for Equal Rights' |
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| Julia Raifman on the Supreme Court’s ruling that workers can’t be fired for being LGBTQ, and how this decision will improve health and wellbeing beyond employment. |
| Published on 5/29/20 |
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| Lifesaving Protections |
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| Suicidality dropped by as much as half among gender minority patients in states that enacted nondiscrimination rules for private health insurance. |
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| Published 5/29/2020 |
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| COVID-19 and LGBTQ Populations |
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| SPH experts weigh in on how the coronavirus is affecting sexual and gender minorities in the US and around the world. |
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| Published on 2/7/20 |
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| Putting ‘Health in All Policies’ |
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| At a Dean's Symposium, Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, on the power of voting, health issues at stake in the 2020 election, and breaking barriers in government. |
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| Conversation Starters for Twitter |
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| For the first time, @SharecareInc’s 2020 Community Well-Being Index—conducted in partnership with @BUSPH—identified Massachusetts as the healthiest state in the nation.
Read the report, and find out where your state ranks here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3wHOoFN |
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