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February 16, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
With federal research funding cuts looming for academia and medical centers across the US, we take at look at how federally funded research at SPH has benefitted real lives across the globe. Read more.
PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS
In this political moment, we need to stay true to our core purpose of Think. Teach. Do, writes Dean Ad Interim Michael Stein in a new Public Health Matters. Read more.
FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY
Since 1948, the Framingham Heart Study has been one of the longest-running large-cohort studies in the world and the first to identify risk factors for heart disease. Three generations of participants later, this joint project between Boston University and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute remains an epicenter for cutting-edge heart, brain, bone, and sleep research. Watch the video.
A highlight of past SPH and PHP coverage of research funded by the National Institutes of Health and other federal entities.
OSTEOARTHRITISDavid Felson (SPH’84) and Tuhina Neogi (SPH’09) received the award from the National Institute on Aging in 2024 to continue their work on The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study, which aims to better understand pain and functioning associated with the degenerative disease. Read more. |
HIV/AIDSDacia Beard and Michael Stein share lessons learned over the course of the HEALing Communities Study, which was funded by the National Institute of Minority and Minority Health Disparities. The researchers provide recommendations on how to successfully implement locally tailored communications campaigns to promote treatment and prevention of opioid addiction. Read more. |
MATERNAL HEALTHIn a 2022 study funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Eugene Declercq found that cases of severe maternal morbidity are undercounted by 22 percent in Massachusetts. Nationally, that rate would equate to almost 90,000 missed cases. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTNo matter your age, STIs can be an invisible risk, according to a 2022 study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Older adults may not be thinking about this, but they should, writes PHP fellow Dani Weissert. Read more. |
MENTAL HEALTHPTSD Nearly Doubles Infection RiskIn a first-of-its-kind, 2019 study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Jaimie Gradus found that having post-traumatic stress disorder nearly doubles a person’s risk of infections. Read more. |
ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETYA 2019 study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health and led by Wendy Heiger-Bernays indicated that the contaminated water of New Bedford Harbor may have posed an airborne health hazard to residents living nearby. Read more. |
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In September 2024, Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a concussion after colliding headfirst with another NFL player. Former MARCOM student content creator Gwen Ip discussed a 2021 study coauthored by SPH's Yorghos Tripodis and Jennifer Weuve and funded by the National Institute on Mental Health, which shows that multiple concussions increase chances of long-term health issues such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE. Revisit the clip here.
In the Media.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Matt Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
KFF HEALTH NEWS
Features poetry by MPH student Holly Ainsworth.
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Quotes Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.
