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November 16, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
New studies by Jonathan Jay, Patrece Joseph, and Emma Gause underscore the critical need for community-level interventions that provide equitable access to safe spaces for youth after school and during the summer. Read more.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION
During an SPH Public Health Conversation on November 12, communication scholars explored how public health experts can leverage social media platforms to communicate reliable health news to the public amid growing distrust in government and science. Read more.
ALUMNI NEWSAs the chief of policy for the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, Alyssa Benalfew-Ramos (SPH’19) aims to build the political power of the state’s Black community to advance racial and economic justice. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTAdults who reported being verbally abused as children were 1.5 times more likely to have poor mental well-being than those who did not, writes PHP fellow Aidan Stotz. Read more. |
CLIMATE CHANGE
The connection between climate change and harm to people’s health continues to grow, writes Jonathan Levy and coauthors in a new article published in The Conversation. The authors examine these risks and discuss steps that individuals and governments can take to reduce the threat that climate changes poses. Read more.
As the COP30 climate summit is underway in Brazil, Flannery Black-Ingersol, PhD student, Elaine Bertolini, research program manager, Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of EH, Gregory Wellenius, Beverly A. Brown Professor for Improvement of Urban Health, and research fellows Nicholas Hartmann and Alexis Arlak, share why they're excited about the field. Watch the video.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
After Georgia expanded Medicaid to include low-income working adults, the proportion of low-income people with health coverage did not change, writes PHP fellow Rowena Lindsay. Read more.
In the Media.
TIME
Quotes Matt Motta, associate professor of health law, policy & management.
MEDSCAPE
Quotes Lindsay Farrer, professor of biostatistics.
NEWS MEDICAL
Quotes Alexa Beiser, professor of biostatistics.
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