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March 23, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming. Read more.
RESEARCHLawAtlas.org, led by Kimberly Nelson, includes state laws from 1849 through 2021 that regulate minors’ legal capacity to independently consent to several categories of care. Read more. |
RESEARCHMortality is about “the way we treat women in healthcare,” says Eugene Declercq, who has tracked this data with students in the database Birth by the Numbers for 15 years. Read more. |
SCHOOL NEWS
The staff awards program celebrates staff for embodying SPH’s core mission and values. The latest recipients of the awards are Junjun Tao, Maria Bakas, Heatherly Mitch, Aboli Goghari, Shelli Vodovozov, and Ayesha Khan.. Read more.
FEDERAL FUNDING CUTS
With the Trump administration potentially cutting HIV/AIDS funding domestically and internationally, Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, chair and professor of community health sciences at BUSPH, discusses the consequences cuts would bring. Watch the video.
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This is not about political gain. It’s about the lives of actual mothers, daughters, sisters, brothers, and kids.
BROOKE NICHOLS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH, ON HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S MOVES TO DISMANTLE USAID.
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The Public Health Conversation Events
In honor of the 30th anniversary of SPH's Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice, this event will explore how we can more holistically advance the long-standing goal of health equity among birthing people and their families.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
While water fluoridation has demonstrated public health benefits, its role in modern society is being questioned, writes PHP fellow Jude Sleiman. Read more.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Collaboration between several Boston-based organizations highlights the immediate and long-term support cities can offer the unhoused, writes PHP fellow Heather Sherr. Read more.
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Explore LawAtlas.org, the new dataset led by Kimberly Nelson, which includes US state laws that govern minors' legal capacity to consent to health services such as STI and HIV testing, treatment, and prevention services. View some of the findings.
In the Media.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management.
THE ATLANTIC
Quotes Matt Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
LEGAL READER
Mentions research by Kimberly Nelson, associate professor of community health sciences.
STATELINE
Quotes Megan Cole, associate professor of health law, policy & management.
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