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SPH This Week.
May 1, 2022
Must Reads.
RESEARCH
Dielle Lundberg, SPH alum and research fellow in the Department of Global Health, is collaborating with a team of researchers at Boston College who are using art, education, and public health to tackle the environmental injustices of textile pollution.
RESEARCHThe rate of mental health problems, including anxiety and depression, has steadily increased over the past eight years, according to a new study led by Sarah Lipson. Rates are even higher among racial and ethnic minority students. |
SCHOOL NEWSThe Society for Epidemiologic Research recognized Julie Petersen for her work defining and summarizing confounding bias in systematic reviews of observational studies. |
Think. Teach. Do.
RESEARCH
A new study by Marcia Pescador Jimenez suggests that increasing residential exposure to greenspace may improve processing speed and attention, and overall cognitive function.
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGEIn a recent episode of Free Associations, podcast hosts Matthew Fox and Jessica Leibler discuss a study that examines whether pesticide ingestion on fruit and vegetables increases the risk for glioma, a tumor that grows on the brain and spinal cord. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTPublic libraries play an integral role in community health. As libraries increasingly become the site where overdoses occur, some libraries are taking action to respond to the opioid epidemic. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Researchers have found that Black and Latinx people are vastly underrepresented in oncology clinical trials.
In the Media.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Dean Sandro Galea; Julia Raifman, assistant professor of health law, policy & management; and Matthew Fox, professor of epidemiology and global health.
WBUR
Quotes Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of environmental health.
NBC BAY AREA
Quotes Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health.
BU TODAY
Quotes Emily Rothman, professor of community health sciences.
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“Scientists can learn a lot from collaborating with artists,” says SPH alum and research fellow Dielle Lundberg, who is combining #art, activism, and public health with @BostonCollege researchers to reduce #textile waste. Learn more: https://ctt.ec/ci664+
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