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January 29, 2023
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RESEARCH
A new study led by Yorghos Tripodis found that Community Health Center patients who obtained fresh produce, dairy, and meats at The Greater Boston Food Bank’s free mobile market experienced improvements in their mental health over three years. Learn more..
VIEWPOINT
Following recent claims within the public health community that US COVID death counts are overestimates, Andrew Stokes and colleagues present new excess mortality data in a commentary in The Conversation, revealing the opposite: COVID deaths are widely overlooked or misclassified, with racial, political, and geographical implications. Read more.
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICENicole Huberfeld co-organized and presented at a Jan. 26 symposium at the School of Law, which convened SPH's George Annas, Yvette Cozier, Michael Ulrich, and alum Nashira Baril with scholars, lawyers, and public health officials from across the country to discuss the post-Roe era. Read more. |
VIEWPOINTIn a new POV for BU Today, Dean Sandro Galea asserts that it is well beyond time for the US to move collectively to common-sense gun safety reform that can make a difference. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
According to 2021 data, over 20 percent of Black, 15 percent of Latino, and 15 percent of American Indian households experience food insecurity, compared to only 7 percent of White families, write SPH alum Cecilia Vu and Yukun Yang, data scientists at BU's Center for Antiracist Research, in a new PHP databyte. Learn more.
EDUCATIONThe New England Public Health Training Center course, Onboarding New Employees, will be available on the CDC Learning Connection website through early February. Learn more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTOf the more than 6,000 residents training to be OB-GYNs, 43.9 percent are at programs in abortion-restrictive states and will not have access to abortion training, according to a new databyte by PHP fellow Connor McCombs. Read more. |
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Mentions research by Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.
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