Training the Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders

The New England Public Health Training Center at BUSPH is partnering with the New England Rural Health Association to recruit a new class of healthcare providers and public health practitioners to a Rural Health Leadership Institute launching September 2026. Read more.

RESEARCH

People with Disabilities Are Diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder at Much Higher Rates than Non-disabled People

A new study led by Rachel Sayko Adams and Jake Morgan found that adults with disabilities had more than three times the rate of AUD diagnoses compared to adults without disabilities in the US, with particularly high rates among disabled men, as well as people with serious mental illness and acquired brain injuries. Read more.

RESEARCH

Why Is Harm Reduction Misunderstood on College Campuses?

A new study led by Isabel Redman, Erin Major, and Noel Vest found that students and staff involved with collegiate recovery programs held very different definitions and perceptions of harm reduction and its role in these programs. Read more.

SCHOOL NEWS

Student Named 2026 Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

During the summer fellowship, MPH student Alexandra Crocker will study the rollout of assistive technology services to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across Massachusetts. Read more.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Psychedelic Inequality: From Clinical Trials to the American Health Care System

The psychedelic medicalization movement spent decades fighting for legitimacy. That era is now ending, with the next test being about access, writes PHP guest author Mackenzie Bullard (SPH'19), SPH alum and research project manager at Boston Medical Center’s Center for Addiction Research and Education. Read more.

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Our vision was to develop a flexible, practice-based rural public health leadership institute that integrated expertise in leadership, management, rural health, and adult learning.

PATRICIA JANULEWICZ LLOYD
ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, ON NEW LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOCUSED ON IMPROVING RURAL HEALTH.

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SPH SNAPSHOT

Snapshots of Summer

Scenes from recent celebrations on campus and conferences attended by SPH faculty, staff, and students. Read more.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Obstetric Care Disappears as Home Births Rise

While some mothers prefer to have a home birth, others are finding themselves with few options as nearby labor and delivery units disappear, writes PHP fellow Kylee Cochran. Read more.

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Keep up with SPH on Instagram.

Since 1990, the American Disabilities Act (ADA) has prohibited the discrimination of people with disabilities in all aspects of public life. MarComm student content creator Kaya Czyz discusses how the ADA has paved the way for more equitable infrastructure, such as wheelchair-accessible public transit, reachable elevator buttons, wide doors, rail signage, and more. Watch the clip.

BUSPH student content creator Kaya Czyz discusses how the ADA has paved the way for more equitable infrastructure

In the Media.

NEW YORK TIMES

U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth.

Mentions research by Brooke Nichols, associate professor of global health.

BOSTON GLOBE

What Two Continents’ Heat Waves Tell Us About the Climate Crisis

Quotes Gregory Wellenius, professor of environmental health and director of the Center for Climate and Health.

BOSTON GLOBE

Mass. Poised to Ban Medical Debt from Being Reported to Credit Agencies

Quotes Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management.

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