‘Make Yourself Available and Visible Within the Community’

Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, new chair of community health sciences, discusses his approach to researching vulnerable populations. Read more.

IN MEMORIAM

Remembering Sherri Stuver

Sherri Stuver, clinical professor of epidemiology, passed away on September 13 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Read more.

RESEARCH

Life Satisfaction May Not Enhance Cognitive Functioning among Some Older Adults

Feeling satisfied in life is generally thought to be a boost to physical and mental health, but a new study suggests that life satisfaction provides little benefit to older adults who also experience health or socioeconomic challenges, according to a new study by Toshiaka Komura and Koichiro Shiba. Learn more.

STUDENT NEWS

Balancing Life as a Business Consultant and Online MPH Student

Malu Foley discovered the Online MPH program while conducting health equity research alongside SPH faculty last year. Read more.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Public Health Post: Reflecting on 8 Years Training Public Health Communicators

Are you an on-campus MPH student interested in shaping the national conversation on critical public health issues? Applications for Public Health Post's 9th cohort of student writing fellows are open until Oct. 6. Learn more and apply.

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Finding, deciphering, and bringing to light pertinent health research with Public Health Post is both crucial and incredibly gratifying.

CAROLINE DIGNARD
2023 PHP FELLOW AND MPH STUDENT

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WEDNESDAY

OCT

1–2:30 p.m.

Preventing Gun Violence: Next Steps for Academic Public Health

PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE

Join SPH for a conversation with members of the ASPPH Gun Violence Prevention Task Force on long-term solutions to the nation's gun violence epidemic, focusing on education and training, research, policy and advocacy, and practice.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Epidemic

In the latest episode of PHPod, host and PHP fellow Kara Schmidt sits down with Annita Lucchesi, founder and director of Sovereign Bodies Institute, and Jodi Voice Yellowfish, founder and chair of MMIW-Texas Rematriate, to discuss the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States. Listen to the episode.

VIEWPOINT

New Georgia Medicaid Expansion 'Will Come at the Expense of Low-income Georgians'

New work requirements and premium contributions in Georgia's partially expanded Medicaid program will lead to unstable coverage, discourage or complicate applications, and produce no effect on employment, write Sarah Gordon, Megan Cole, and Nicole Huberfeld in a new JAMA viewpoint. Learn more.

PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Extreme Heat Shattering Record Highs

Heat action plans are important tools that cities use to reduce health risks related to extreme heat, but many plans lack specific strategies to reach important at-risk groups, writes PHP fellow Adna Jaganjac in a new databyte. Read more.