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January 7, 2024
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Message from the Dean
Inviting Hope as We Start 2024
On the year ahead, towards paving the way for conversations to come as the year unfolds.
RESEARCH
AJ Rosellini and Jaimie Gradus will leverage Danish health records to document the mental and physical health outcomes experienced by family and friends of individuals who die by suicide. Read more.
RESEARCHA new study led by Kevin Nguyen found that sexual minority women had worse access to care and sexual minority men were less likely to be able to afford necessary medical care compared to their heterosexual peers during the pandemic. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTCyber scammers and their efforts are evolving, targeting and exploiting vulnerable victims, particularly the elderly, writes PHP fellow Caroline Dignard. Read more. |
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I think this project brings these two important fields together by looking at the trauma of suicide itself.
AJ ROSELLINI
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, ON NEW GRANT TO STUDY HEALTH OF SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS
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RESEARCH
Nicole Huberfeld co-edited the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics issue “Seeking Reproductive Justice in the Next 50 Years,” which commemorates the would-be 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade by exploring what the future might look like with the landmark Supreme Court decision overturned. Read more.
FREE ASSOCIATIONS PODCASTIn a new episode of Free Associations, hosts Matthew Fox, Jessica Leibler, and guest host Jonathan Jay discuss a study on child opportunity in the built environment and physical fitness. Listen to the podcast. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTNew York City's Stop, Question, and Frisk policy was linked with more frequent police stops and increased psychiatric emergency department visits among Black people, writes PHP fellow Sean Hagan. Learn more. |
RESEARCH
As a winter storm blankets much of the northeastern United States this weekend, revisit research led by Birgit Claus Henn, who found that the US ski and snowboard community may have a high risk of exposure to PFAS and other environmental contaminants due to the wax on their sports equipment. Read more.
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