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SPH This Week.
February 4, 2024
Latest News, Research, and More
ALUMNI NEWS
Stephen Murray (SPH’22) blends his personal and professional experiences as an overdose survivor, paramedic, and now, director of the Massachusetts Overdose Prevention Helpline to challenge stigma and promote empathy for people who use drugs. Read more.
EDUCATION
Current and past on-campus MPH core course instructors weigh in on the importance of the core curriculum in producing the next generation of capable and caring public health professionals. Learn more.
RESEARCHWith the new award, Amruta Nori-Sarma and colleagues aim to better understand the social, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence vulnerability to adverse mental health impacts of extreme heat. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTMost substance use is polysubstance use, which complicates treatment and overdose prevention efforts, especially in rural America, writes PHP fellow Kara Schmidt in a new databyte. Read more. |
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We use a social justice lens to teach students that improving health outcomes cannot be their sole focus. Rather, we must use our efforts and resources to help those most in need.
MICHAEL ULRICH
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HEALTH LAW, ETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS, ON SPH'S CORE CURRICULUM
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PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
Join SPH for this conversation on the health of older adults. The discussion will explore the unique health challenges that aging populations face and how we can better promote the health of aging populations nationally and globally.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Introducing "Observing Science"—Public Health Post's new weekly viewpoint series by Dean Sandro Galea and Michael Stein, PHP executive editor and chair and professor of health law, policy & management. The series will explore the workings of science, it's limitations, and its promise for a healthier world. Read the first viewpoint.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION STARTER
REPLAY
In a recent Public Health Conversation Starter, Dean Sandro Galea speaks with James Tabery, professor of philosophy and internal medicine at the University of Utah, about his book Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health. Watch the brief video here.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
PHPod sits down with Christina Dobbs, assistant professor at BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development and the director of the college’s English Education for Equity and Justice program, to discuss the current onslaught of book challenges and bans in classrooms across the country and the actions being taken to support teachers and students during this time. Listen to the podcast.
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Craig Andrade, associate dean for practice, joined the Massachusetts Poverty Commission convened by the Massachusetts Legislature. The commission is tasked with studying ways to promote opportunity, address inequality, and reduce poverty in the Commonwealth and make recommendations that, if implemented, would significantly reduce poverty in the Commonwealth over the next 10 years. |
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Patricia Fabian, associate professor of environmental health, has been appointed by the Healey-Driscoll Administration to the Massachusetts Office of Climate Science's Advisory Panel to provide essential guidance on current climate data best practices and needs. |
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Elaine Nsoesie, associate professor of global health, and alum Sara Mar (SPH'22) have been selected to serve as Public Voices Fellows by AcademyHealth. Nsoesie and Mar will receive training and coaching by professional journalists and editors through The OpEd Project. |
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Peter Rockers and Veronika Wirtz have received a $500,000 grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in which they will examine how the pharmaceutical industry can improve its reporting on access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries to support the global effort to achieve universal health coverage. Rockers will present on this topic during a lunch seminar on March 21. Register here. |
In the Media.
Article written by Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.
Interview with Justin White, associate professor of health law, policy & management.
Quotes Matt Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
Quotes Richard Clapp, emeritus professor of environmental health.
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Members of Gen Z are quitting vaping, citing solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's main source of cobalt. The chemical element powers most of our electronics, from vapes, to cars, and phones. Learn more in this video by our student content creator Audeaneh Saberi.
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