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March 19, 2023
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
Megan Cole received the five-year award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to evaluate how Medicaid accountable care organizations can improve quality and equity of care for pregnant patients. Read more.
ALUMNI NEWSAs the new associate chief of staff for policy & cabinet affairs for Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, alum Sarah Sabshon discusses her passion for policy and her journey to the governor’s office. Read more. |
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGEPopHealthExperience offers rising 8th-12th graders an immersive introduction to public health, with the opportunity to participate in hands-on research, develop leadership skills, and learn more about biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health advocacy, and health policy. The program takes place July 10-21. Learn more and register. |
RESEARCH
A new study led by Ziming Xuan has found that cities that introduced post-overdose programs were associated with lower opioid-related death rates over time, compared to those that did not implement these programs. These programs were also linked to a significant reduction of opioid emergency response rates. See the findings.
WEDNESDAY
MAR
22
1–2 p.m.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
Join SPH for this program, which will reflect on the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Yvette Cozier will moderate the conversation featuring Lillie Jewel Tyson Head, president of Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation and daughter of Freddie Lee Tyson, one of the 623 men whose legal health rights were violated in the study, as well as Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, which has publicly apologized for the Fund’s role in the study.
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTToo often, diabetic children make enemies of their bodies while trying to strike a balance between enjoying what they eat and managing their blood sugar, writes PHP fellow Connor McCombs in a new Viewpoint. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTRoughly 42 percent of US adults experience weight discrimination, yet Michigan is the only state where discrimination based on weight is illegal, writes PHP fellow Hannah Tremont. Read more. |
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION STARTER
In the latest installment of SPH's Public Health Conversation Starter series, Dean Sandro Galea speaks with Marion Nestle, emerita Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, about food politics, corporate greed, and the future of the American food system. Watch the full video.
In the Media.
Quotes Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.
Quotes Salma Abdalla, assistant professor of global health and epidemiology.
Article co-authored by Monica Wang, associate professor of community health sciences.
Quotes Megan Sandel, professor of environmental health.
Letter to the Editor by Tomeka Frieson, MPH student.
Quotes Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology.
Quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health.
Quotes Paul Shafer, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
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