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October 23, 2022
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
VOTING
Hogg, a March for Our Lives cofounder and Parkland school shooting survivor, and Rosenthal, cofounder of Stop Handgun Violence, visited the school on Oct. 17 to motivate young people to make their voices heard by voting in the 2022 midterm elections on Nov. 8. Read more.
RESEARCH
In the months after the advance federal Child Tax Credit cash payments ended in December 2021, low-income families with children struggled the most to afford enough food, according to a new study led by Paul Shafer. See the findings.
ALUMNI NEWS
Joanna Krause (SPH’14) is the executive director of Canopy, a refugee resettlement agency in Northwest Arkansas, whose work was recently featured on Hillary Clinton’s new AppleTV show, Gutsy. Learn more.
MONDAY
OCT
24
1:00–2:30 p.m.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
Join maternal health experts as they discuss how we can put the needs of mothers at the heart of public health and preserve and improve the health of all persons who give birth.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION
Ahead of the 10/24 Public Health Conversation, Marcela Howell, president and CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Agenda, spoke with PHP fellow Barbara Espinosa about advocating to reduce disproportionate, pregnancy-related adverse health outcomes among Black women.
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTProposed rules to require public companies to disclose climate-related information in their financial filings is good public health, writes PHP fellow Abby Outterson in this Viewpoint. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTClimate anxiety affects young people worldwide, particularly those living where the consequences of climate change are more pronounced, writes PHP fellow Barbara Espinosa. Read more. |
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGE
On Oct. 26, Alyssa Benalfew-Ramos, SPH alum and associate director in the Office of Racial Equity & Community Engagement at the Boston Public Health Commission, will lead a PHX webinar on how governmental public health practitioners can build community health needs assessments. Register here.
SNAPSHOT
Scenes from on-campus programming, including Public Health Conversations on youth voter participation, mass incarceration, and antiracism within academia. View the gallery.
In the Media.
Opinion piece by MPH students Lina Saleh and Adaeze Okorie.
Article co-written by Matthew Motta, clinical lecturer of health law, policy & management.
Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health.
Quotes doctoral student Sydney Willis.
Quotes David Jernigan, professor of health law, policy & management and assistant dean for practice.
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SUGGESTED TWEET
"Culture is actually way more powerful than laws. It just takes longer to change." - @davidhogg111, @BUSPH on 10/17 with @JohnRosenthal_ to discuss why it is so important for young people to vote. Watch: https://ctt.ec/c9500+ #VoteForHealth
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