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September 28, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
A new study led by Eugene Declercq found that infant mortality rates in Massachusetts were 14 times higher among babies whose mother experienced a pregnancy-associated death than among babies whose mother survived pregnancy and postpartum. Read more.
RESEARCH
Doctoral students Jiujia Zhang (ENG) and Lauren Linde (SPH) and SPH faculty members Leonardo Martinez and Meredith Brooks won the challenge with a scalable web-based app designed to optimize the placement of community-based TB screening units to maximize detection effectiveness. Read more.
SCHOOL NEWSAs a municipal fellow with the Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition initiative, a partnership among BU's Institute for Global Sustainability, the Healey-Driscoll Administration, and UMass Lowell, MPH student Paige Kelley is assisting the Town of Arlington in inventorying greenhouse gas emissions, planning electrification projects, and coordinating community outreach. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTOver 40 percent of study participants reported experiencing unacceptable levels of pain related to intrauterine device insertion, writes PHP fellow Mallika Chimpiri. Read more. |
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Local sustainability managers are doing so much work. And I think it’s wonderful, and it definitely makes me feel hopeful.
PAIGE KELLEY
MPH STUDENT, ON CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS WITH TOWN OF ARLINGTON
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The Public Health Conversation Events
The Fall 2025 selection is Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda by SPH Professor David K. Jones (1981–2021), who spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta, conducting primary research with residents and local leaders, and exploring the influence of both policy and community-led initiatives on their health. This event will feature Yvette Cozier, associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusion & justice, in conversation with the co-editors of the book: Debra Bingham, and SPH Professors Sarah Gordon and Nicole Huberfeld.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashed $1 trillion from Medicaid. The consequences may cost thousands of lives, writes Paul Shafer in a PHP viewpoint. Read more.
Keep up with SPH on Instagram.
"Biomedical research is the foundation of my career and the driving force behind my commitment to global health equity." As part of United for MedicalResearch's #MyWHY campaign, SPH's Alana Brennan discusses the importance of NIH funding for her work on chronic communicable and noncommunicable diseases. See more.
In the Media.
YAHOO! NEWS
Mentions research by Chen Sheng, PhD candidate in epidemiology.
CBS NEWS
Quotes Matt Motta, associate professor of health law, policy & management and Monica Wang, associate professor of community health sciences.
BIOENGINEER.ORG
Mentions research by Paul Shafer, associate professor of health law, policy & management, and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, research associate professor of health law, policy & management.
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