SPH This Week.
July 17, 2022
Must Reads.
RESEARCH
A new study coauthored by Kiersten Strombotne and Melissa Garrido evaluated a Veterans Affairs suicide prevention initiative that sent letters of support to veterans after they called the VA's crisis hotline.
ALUMNI PROFILEAlum Shenaaz El-Halabi (SPH’00) discusses her time at SPH and her three-decade career as a global health professional, including her current role as director in the Office of the Director-General at the World Health Organization. |
CITIES AND HEALTHMadeleine Scammell and Patricia Fabian are studying air and ground temperatures in Chelsea, Mass., an urban “heat island” that’s getting hotter from climate change. |
RESEARCH
Massachusetts topped the rankings as the healthiest state in the nation for the second consecutive year. The report is part of a five-year collaboration between the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center and the digital health company.
Think. Teach. Do.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
The US is one of few countries where formula companies aren't required to follow the World Health Organization's Code of Marketing on Breastmilk Substitutes, which regulates predatory marketing efforts by the formula industry, writes PHP fellow Abby Outterson.
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGEIn the latest episode of Free Associations, Matthew Fox, Jessica Leibler, and guest host Marcia Pescador Jimenez discuss the impact of cardiovascular risk factors in childhood and their relation to cardiovascular events as adults. |
SCHOOL NEWSThe 2021 issue of SPH This Year received two Circle of Excellence awards by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education on June 22. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Pediatric melatonin is on the rise, writes PHP fellow Hannah Tremont. Rates of melatonin poisoning among children age 5 and under more than doubled from 2017 to 2021 in the US.
In the Media.
NEW YORK TIMES
Quotes Dean Sandro Galea.
BOSTON GLOBE
Letter to the Editor by Jennifer Beard, clinical associate professor of global health.
WIRED
Quotes Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor of environmental health.
FORTUNE
Quotes Sarah Lipson, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
BOSTON HERALD
Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health.
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“Getting a letter made me feel like maybe someone's finally listening to me.” US #veteran, in @HSR_HRET study coauthored by @heykiersten and @GarridoMelissa. Study evaluated a #suicide prevention initiative that sent letters to VA crisis line callers. Read: https://ctt.ec/gmO9K+
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