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June 15, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
Q&A
Gregory Wellenius discusses how recent funding and staff cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency will affect disaster response ahead of what is expected to be an "above-normal" 2025 hurricane season. Read more.
RESEARCH
About 525,000 more deaths occurred among US adults in 2023 than would be expected had pre-2010 mortality trends continued, according to a new study led by Andrew Stokes. More than 90 percent of these excess deaths occurred among individuals without a bachelor's degree and were largely caused by circulatory diseases. Read more.
SCHOOL NEWSDuring the summer fellowship, MPH student Grace Reynolds will use Medicaid data to investigate the effects of extreme heat on the use of emergency health services in Massachusetts. Read more. |
SCHOOL NEWSAllison Portnoy, assistant professor of global health, and Sarah Milligan, a PhD candidate in biostatistics, have been named fellows at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing. Read more. |
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Education fundamentally structures people’s work opportunities, and having less of it sets people up for a lot of downstream consequences that make it difficult to maintain good health.
ANDREW STOKES
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH, ON HOW US MORTALITY APPEARS TO DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECT PEOPLE WITHOUT A BACHELOR'S DEGREE.
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PUBLIC HEALTH POST
The Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies are destabilizing a health care workforce the country cannot afford to lose, writes PHP fellow Rowena Lindsay. Read more.
Public Health Conversation Starter
In this Public Health Conversation Starter, Craig Andrade, associate dean for practice and director of the Activist Lab, speaks with Paul Shoemaker (Questrom ’12), director of the Environmental & Occupational Health Division at the Boston Public Health Commission, about the work of the division and how it impacts the health of the environment and daily life for Boston residents. Shoemaker also shares advice for students who are hoping to engage in this space. Watch or listen to the conversation.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Research shows that quitting smoking adds years to your life, no matter when you stop. But the earlier you quit, the greater the reward, writes PHP fellow Aidan Stotz. Read more.
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Earlier this week, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. fired all sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced several of these members with people who have spread vaccine misinformation. SPH's Matt Motta discusses what this move could mean for vaccine access, state health insurance programs, and the health of children. Watch the clip.
In the Media.
THE INDEPENDENT
Quotes Jennifer Stowell, research scientist for the Center for Climate and Health.
SCI TECH DAILY
Quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, emeritus clinical professor of environmental health, and Thomas Webster, adjunct professor of environmental health.
NBC NEWS
Quotes Matt Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
MINNESOTA DAILY
Quotes Jacob Bor, associate professor of global health and epidemiology.
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