SPH This Week.
November 7, 2021
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RESEARCH
Brooke Nichols co-leads a new report and modeling consortium that has examined whether rapid diagnostic tests can mitigate COVID transmission in distinct circumstances, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
RESEARCHBU scientists from a range of disciplines are lobbying for new policies to protect the world’s most vulnerable people from the consequences of climate change. |
ALUMNI NEWSMorgan Simko is the legislative director for Massachusetts State Senator John Keenan, for whom she oversees policy priorities, a budget, and legislation in the Joint Committee on Housing. |
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RESEARCH
A new report on the health of Gulf War veterans shows that at least one third of those who served are experiencing chronic pain, debilitating fatigue, sleep and memory problems, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, and more.
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGERegister for the 2022 Winter Institute, which begins on January 3 and will offer short, immersive lifelong learning programs in lean management, GIS, data to dashboards, biostatistics, and infectious disease epidemiology. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTMia Roberts, vice president of community relations for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, discusses how the program's core mission aligns with public health and builds young girls' healthy development and resilience. |
In the Media.
BOSTON GLOBE
Opinion by Monica Wang, associate professor of community health sciences
TRADEOFFS
Opinion by Paul Shafer, assistant professor of health law, policy & management
THE HILL
Article co-written by Julia Raifman, assistant professor of health law, policy & management and Alexandra Skinner, research fellow of global health
VERYWELL
Article written by alum Kayla Hui
NBC10
Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health
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