COVID-19

Omicron Variant: 'A Little Too Much Hype, Saying This Is the Next Scary Thing'

Davidson Hamer, professor of global health, and Judy Platt, BU's director of Student Health Services, discussed whether Omicron's arrival should influence our outlook and behavior, and how BU will prepare for, and detect, it.

RESEARCH

Low Knowledge of HIV Treatment as Prevention among University Students in South Africa 

Although antiretroviral therapy leading to viral suppression eliminates the risk of HIV transmission during sex, South African university students perceived this risk of transmission to be as high as 73 percent.

POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGE

Winter Institute: Essentials of Population Health Research

This virtual course offers an introduction to the data, tools, and methods of population health research drawing on theory and methods from epidemiology, biostatistics, and the broader social sciences. The course, taught by Andrew Stokes, assistant professor of global health, begins January 3.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

The Period Project

PHPod returns with a conversation between SPH alum Walae Hayek and PHP fellow Rubina Veerakone, who discuss period poverty and The Period Project student organization, which brings menstruation supplies, education and advocacy to Boston University and beyond.