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November 17, 2024
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
2024 US ELECTION
SPH faculty, staff, and students share what a second Trump administration means to them personally and to the public health issues that matters most to them—and how we can remain optimistic and embrace opportunities to make progress towards a safer and healthier world. Read more.
RESEARCH
A new study led by Eugene Declercq found that pregnant people in Massachusetts who made multiple unscheduled hospital visits during their pregnancy were 46 percent more likely to experience severe maternal morbidity than those who sought limited or no emergency care during pregnancy. Learn more.
SCHOOL NEWSMembers of the SPH community share recommendations for the books, films, podcasts, and other content that has resonated with them as they study, research, and practice public health. Learn more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTThere is a growing gap in mental health treatment use among single adults who may have a need for these services, writes PHP fellow Dani Weissert. Read more. |
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For everyone who is feeling rage, anger, and sadness after this election, I am with you. But we cannot allow those feelings to make us apathetic towards the world around us.
ALIANNA HIGGINS
PHD STUDENT IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
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NOV
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1–2:30 p.m.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
Join SPH for the last event of our fall election series, which will feature a conversation with deans of schools of public health across the United States to consider the intersection of the election and population health in their region. Incoming SPH Dean Michael Stein will lead the conversation with M. Daniele Fallin, James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health; Hilary Godwin, dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health; Lynn Goldman, Michael and Lori Milken Dean of the George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health; and Melinda Pettigrew, dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
RESEARCH
The study, co-led by Nimish Adhikari, discovered genetic markers in inflammation that may be related to a second stroke or other major cardiovascular event following a stroke. These findings could help identify drug targets to mitigate stroke-related disability and mortality. Read more.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION STARTER
In this Public Health Conversation Starter, Dean Sandro Galea speaks with Budi Gunadi Sadikin, health minister of Indonesia, on health system reform, vaccination efforts, pandemic preparedness, health challenges of low- and middle-income countries, and the role of universities in promoting health. Watch, read, or listen to the conversation here.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Lawrence Yang, professor and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the NYU School of Global Public Health and a recent guest speaker at an SPH Public Health Conversation on migration, discusses his research on migration stigma and mental health outcomes for migrant communities in the US with PHP fellow Jude Sleiman. Read more.
In the Media.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management.
NEWSWEEK
Quotes Jonathan Jay, assistant professor of community health sciences.
STAT
Quotes Matt Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
HEALIO
Quotes Justin White, associate professor of health law, policy & management
ALLEGHENY FRONT
Quotes Jonathan Buonocore, assistant professor of environmental health.
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