SPH This Week.
November 14, 2021
Must Reads.
SCHOOL NEWS
Rosie's Place, Mothers Out Front, and the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition will receive the Beyond Health Award, the school's highest honor, for their contributions to creating conditions that make the world a healthier place.
RESEARCHBetween 2000-2018, the percentage of car crash deaths involving cannabis doubled, and now these incidents are even more likely to involve alcohol. |
ALUMNI NEWSChris Chanyasulkit will start her one-year term as president after the APHA Annual Meeting in November 2022. |
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Opinion.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
the turning point.
Think. Teach. Do.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
In the new season of the Public Health Post podcast, PHP fellows Rubina Veerakone, Sara Mar, Maya Thirkill, and Devin O'Donnell sit down with Craig Andrade, associate dean for practice and director of the Activist Lab, to discuss what activism means to them.
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTAhead of a Public Health Conversation on 11/16, M. Daniele Fallin, chair of the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke with Public Health Post about the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and how to improve access to mental health services. |
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGEReinvigorate your career and learn how to navigate life's stressors during this free webinar at 12 pm on November 22 with Donna White, former consultant and addiction specialist at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, a public health hospital for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
SCHOOL NEWS
In Cannabis: Moving Forward, Protecting Health, David Jernigan and colleagues offer policymakers a unique, evidence-based framework for developing cannabis regulations that protect community health.
In the Media.
WBZ NEWSRADIO 1030
Interview with Davidson Hamer, professor of global health
BOSTON MAGAZINE
Quotes Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of environmental health
WASHINGTON POST
Quotes Koen Tieskens, postdoctoral associate of environmental health
CNBC
References study by Sarah Lipson, assistant professor of health law, policy & management
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