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June 11, 2023
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION
The US Surgeon General and US Senator said smartphones and social media apps are exacerbating the mental health challenges young people face today. Read more.
RESEARCH
A new study led by Sarah Gordon found that Washington, DC had the highest rate of severe maternal morbidity in the country—nearly three times as high as Utah, the state with the lowest rate. Read more.
FACULTY NEWSDebbie Cheng will be inducted as a fellow in August, joining a select group of peers. Learn more. |
STUDENT NEWSDuring the summer fellowship with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, doctoral student Cara Safon will collaborate with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to increase access to doula services in the state. Learn more. |
CLIMATE CHANGE
Jennifer Stowell and other BU environmental experts share with The Brink why they are worried that climate change will aggravate wildfire effects. Read more.
WEDNESDAY
JUNE
14
10 a.m.–1 p.m.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
Join SPH for the fifth installment of our Teaching Public Health series, which will focus on health equity and explore issues raised in ASPPH's "Framing the Future: Education for Public Health 2030" initiative, including a vision of public health education that will advance health equity and well-being for all.
ALUMNI NEWS
Kate Onyejekwe (SPH’03), director of the international division of John Snow, Inc. in Washington, DC, recounts her journey from English major in Nigeria to global public health leader. Read more.
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTThe COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by an epidemic of anti-Asian hate crimes, with reports of these crimes rising by 89% between 2019 and 2021, write Leanne Villareal, research coordinator for the Racial Data Lab at BU's Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) and Cecilia Vu (SPH'15), SPH alum and data scientist at CAR. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTLillie Jewel Tyson Head is president of Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, which fosters education, social justice, and medical research to honor the victims of the Tuskegee Study. Head, whose father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was one of the 623 men in this study, discusses with PHP fellow Sean Hagan the suffering that her father and the other men in the study experienced, and how she is advocating tirelessly for health equity. Read more. |
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Seventy percent of parents today say that parenting is harder than it was 20 years ago.
VIVEK MURTHY
US SURGEON GENERAL, ON WORSENING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH
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In the Media.
Quotes Jennifer Stowell, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Health.
Quotes Matthew Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
Quotes Sarah Lipson, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
Quotes Jonathan Jay, assistant professor of community health sciences.
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