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October 31, 2021

 
 
 

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RESEARCH

With $7.1M Grant, Professors to Study Unhealthy Drinking, Chronic Pain, Inactivity among People Living with HIV

The five-year award from the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will fund the Boston ARCH Comorbidities Center, an interdisciplinary project that will address physical and mental health function among people living with HIV and will be led by Richard Saitz and Michael Stein.

 

POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGE

PHX Helps Launch Statewide COVID-19 Vaccine Training

Offered through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the free, online training helps healthcare providers stay up-to-date on the latest information around vaccine storage, handling, administration, and safety.

 
 

RESEARCH

Risk for Pregnancy Complications Increased during COVID-19

During COVID, commercially insured pregnant people in the US had an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes and hypertension, preeclampsia, and poor fetal growth.

 

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The Contagion Next Time: A Book Discussion.

 

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Opinion.

 
 
 
 

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

the turning point.

When Do We Stop Counting?

 
 
 

VIEWPOINT

Environmental Justice Finally Legitimized in Massachusetts

 
 
 

Think. Teach. Do.

 
 
 

Q&A

Staff Senate Provides 'Opportunity to Affect Real Changes at SPH'

Nick Gooler, digital media producer in the Office of Lifelong Learning and chair of Staff Senate, shares about his role on the Senate and how his experience has impacted his time at SPH.

 

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

'Healthcare Is Going to Be a Powerful Investor in the Food System'

Josh Trautwein, co-founder and CEO of About Fresh, discusses food insecurity in Boston and the work of his organization, which provides healthy and affordable food to the public. 

 
 

POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGE

Cannabis and Car Crashes

In a new episode of Free Associations, podcast hosts and SPH professors Matthew Fox, Christopher Gill, and Donald Thea discuss a study on the role of cannabis in car crashes and more.

 
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In the Media.

 
 
 

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

Sunk Cost Bias in the Time of COVID

Article written by Dean Sandro Galea

 

VOX

How You’ll Know When COVID-19 Has Gone from “Pandemic” to “Endemic”

Quotes Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology

 

NBC BOSTON

Should Mass. Lift the School Mask Mandate? Here’s What Boston Doctors Think

Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health

 

US NEWS & WORLD REPORT

U.S. Gun Violence Rates Jumped 30% During Pandemic

Quotes Bindu Kalesan, assistant professor of community health sciences

 

BOSTON GLOBE

After a traumatic journey, Afghan immigrants on humanitarian parole cope with uncertainty

Quotes alum Ali Noorani

 

ROLLING STONE

Democrats’ Betrayals Are Jeopardizing American Democracy

Mentions Jacob Bor, assistant professor and Peter T. Paul Career Development Professor of global health and epidemiology

 
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