New Politics and Health Lab Aims to Depolarize Public Health

Led by Matt Motta and Tim Callaghan, the lab aims to thwart the rapidly increasing politicization of public health by developing evidence-based data and tailored communication strategies to bolster support for health-protective policies. Read more.

RESEARCH

Utah Law Allowing Minors to Revoke Medical Consent Retroactively Is ‘Attacking the Foundation of the US Healthcare System’

The legislation puts clinicians at risk of litigation for providing legally consented gender-affirming care to minors and could lead doctors to withhold treatment for other health conditions—and in additional states—according to a new perspective by Kimberly Nelson in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more.

SCHOOL NEWS

Healthcare Insights from the Frontlines: A Nurse’s Pursuit of an MPH

Lynet Kituku, an emergency department nurse and a current online MPH student, reflects on how her studies are reshaping her approach to patient care. Read more.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Anti-Transgender Laws and Youth Suicide

States with anti-transgender laws saw as much as a 44-percent increase in youth suicide attempts in the year following the enactment of the law, writes PHP fellow Dani Weissert. Read more.

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I fear that we're trapped in a cycle that we can't break out of. One of the reasons why this lab exists is to try to find evidence-based measures that can finally dismantle that runaway politicization.

MATT MOTTA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HEALTH LAW, POLICY & MANAGEMENT, ON INDIVIDUALS' TENDENCY TO SEEK REINFORCEMENT OF PARTISAN BELIEFS

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PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Policy vs. Practice: Hurdles in Expanding Birth Control Access

In states where Medicaid covers 12-month supplies of birth control pills, most contraceptive users only receive a 1-3-month supply at a time, writes PHP fellow Jude Sleiman. Read more.

Public Health Conversation Starter

'Does Voting Make a Difference? It Does, Look Around.'

In this Public Health Conversation Starter, Yvette Cozier, associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusion & justice, speaks with Virginia Sapiro, dean emerita and professor emerita of political science at the College of Arts & Sciences about her scholarly interests, which include American politics, political psychology and political behavior, gender politics, feminist theory, American political development, and the history of higher education. Watch the conversation.

SNAPSHOT

SPH Snapshot: Winter on Campus

Scenes from campus in January, from a student organization fair to a presentation of a heat sensor pilot project. View the gallery.

Keep up with SPH on Instagram.

Follow along with MarComm student content creator Carla Irizarry-Delgado as she checks out new places to visit during her first winter in Boston. First stop of the series: #Pavement!

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In the Media.

THE BRIGHT SIDE PODCAST

Is It Time to Pour One Out for Drinking?

Interview with Rachel Sayko Adams, research associate professor of health law, policy & management.

YAHOO! LIFE

'Excess Deaths' Are Surging Among Young Adults, Study Finds. Experts Say It's Not Just Drug Overdoses.

Quotes Andrew Stokes, associate professor of global health.

BOSTON.COM

Mass. Health Experts Concerned About Future of Vaccines, ‘Anti-science Focus’ After RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hearing.

Quotes Matt Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.

NEWSWEEK

Map Shows States with Medicaid Work Requirements

Quotes Megan Cole, associate professor of health law, policy & management and Paul Shafer, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.

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