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May 3, 2026
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
Using simulation modeling based on historical data, a new study led by Margaret Lind found that when vaccination coverage among infants born to unscreened mothers was only 10 percent, more than 1,000 additional hepatitis B infections were projected. Read more.
INSIGHTS FROM THE DEAN
Dean Adnan Hyder shares his thoughts and takeaways from a recent Public Health Conversation that convened leaders from APHA, ASPPH, and the deBeaumont Foundation on how the field needs to evolve and respond. Read more.
RESEARCHSarah Gordon, along with William Schpero at Weill Cornell Medicine, will create a digital platform that will enable policymakers and others to quickly identify how Medicaid spending and use vary across states, counties, plans, and populations. Read more. |
RESEARCHEric Rubenstein's lab focuses on issues affecting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) across the lifespan, and intentionally includes a co-research team of people with IDD to ensure that this work is grounded in lived experience. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Drugs can treat obesity. Structural change can prevent it. The most promising answers may live at the intersection of both, writes PHP guest author and SPH student Shrutika Damle. Read more.
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The question we must grapple with in our respective lanes of industry/trade groups, schools and programs of public health, local/government agencies is: how can we align around shared priorities in ways that translate to coordinated action in this urgent moment?
ADNAN HYDER
SPH DEAN AND ROBERT A. KNOX PROFESSOR, ON ADVANCING PUBLIC HEALTH.
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AWARDSKevin Nguyen will receive the Alice S. Hersh Emerging Leader Award from AcademyHealth on May 31 in recognition of his research, which spans Medicaid policies and care delivery reforms on quality and equity of care. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTBoredom does not always have to be a negative emotion. Recent research shows that it can be a key motivator for seeking new challenges, writes PHP fellow Farah Nimeri. Read more. |
SPH SNAPSHOT
Photos from warmer weather days on campus, the spring career fair, a symposium on AI in practice, a student fellow’s global health presentation, and a recent Alumni & Friends reception in Boston. Read more.
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In the Media.
WASHINGTON POST
Mentions research by Margaret Lind, assistant professor of epidemiology.
NEW YORK TIMES
Quotes Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.
EOS
Quotes Mary Willis, assistant professor of epidemiology, and Jonathan Buonocore, assistant professor of environmental health.
WBUR
Quotes Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of environmental health.
YAHOO! NEWS
Quotes Matthew Motta, associate professor of health law, policy & management.
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