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Cities and health
- Where You Live Determines Risk of Severe Pregnancy, Postpartum Complications
- Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Production is Harming Our Health and Business
Climate, the planet, and health
- Student Wins Climate Innovation Challenge with Tree Planting Initiative
- New Climate and Health Research Coordinating Center
Collaborations
- The future is bright for collaborative public health solutions
- Predicting breast cancer risk in Black women
- The uncertain path to a holiday: reflections on MLK Day 2022
- Big ideas to solve big public health problems
- How mobile technology increases veteran healthcare and wellbeing
- Developing a new generation of public health technologists
- Preterm birth rates: they’re all over the map
- Fulfilling the dream
- You need public health investment in your 2021 strategic plan
Continuing the conversation
- Continuing the conversation: Abolition, incarceration, and the public’s health
- Continuing the conversation: Towards antiracist academic institutions – Next steps reflections
- Continuing the conversation: Monkeypox — old disease, new fears
- Continuing the conversation: Preventing the next pandemic—will we be prepared?
Health inequities
- Child Tax Credits Provided Significant Relief to Families Experiencing Economic Shocks during COVID
- New Study on the Effectiveness of GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs
- Women Without Children at Age 35 Are at Highest Risk of Binge Drinking, Alcohol Use Disorder
- Gender Identity, Race Intersections ‘Really Matter for Access to Healthcare’
idea hub impact
- A different idea hub impact: from Partner to Online MPH Student
- Carlin Foundation Funds Innovation Grants: “You’ve got a great idea. How do you get it done?”
- Making the most of this new year
- Emerging Women Leaders (EWL)
- Impactful partnerships: an occupational health perspective
- Today’s economy is all about public health
In the news
- Designing Equity-Focused Programs to address racism and break down health inequities
- New BUSPH Program to Meet Growing Industry Demand
- What is Health Equity, and Why Does it Matter?
- The link between nature and mental health
- Utilizing technology to conduct online therapy sessions
- Understanding how data can help inform a healthier world
- Children and extreme heat: How climate change is affecting children’s health
- Announcing the Center for Climate and Health
- Developing Technology to Help Bolster Public Health
- Empowering youth to combat misinformation on social media
- idea hub board member & SPH professor receives lifetime achievement award for mental health advocacy
- Why health data is good infrastructure
- Improving emergency care for the betterment of public health
- Alcohol Consumption Has Spiked During the Pandemic. Could the Consequences Outlast the Coronavirus?
- Susan Garfield, idea hub advisory board member, named Chief Public Health Officer at EY
- “We are building something new that has rarely been attempted at a school of public health.”
- Creating public health solutions with public and private sectors
- idea hub to impact health care innovation
Maternal and child health
Research and data
- Researchers Identify Novel Genetic Variants Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease
- New Study Could Help Diagnose CTE before Death
- The pros and cons of social media on mental health
- BUSPH researchers help highlight health inequity for Surgeon General’s report
- Climate and health: a community perspective
- Allergy Season is Getting Longer: How Climate Change and Allergies are Connected
- Tracking individuals through time to find TB transmission hot-spots in South Africa
- Gulf War veterans and their children: Understanding Gulf War Illness
- What’s the deal with climate change and health? (part one)
- Addressing child mental health in schools through school nurses
- Extreme Heat Linked to Increase in Mental Health Emergency Care
- How to keep your home cool in extreme heat
- COVID-19 and depression: Understanding the mental effects of a pandemic
- COVID-19 vaccinations safe for pregnancy and fertility
- Healthy people are critical to a healthy economy – public health is the answer
- The expanding range of ticks and mosquitoes
- How media attention changed hospital business policies impacting vulnerable populations
- Delivering the message about health insurance
- Researchers identify an existing drug that may be an effective new PTSD treatment
- Tackling health inequities and climate change
- Improving the value of medicare
- Call the midwife: better health outcomes with birth centers
- Mental health and physical health cannot be separated
- How machine learning helps predict suicide after discharge from psychiatric hospitalization
- How reducing greenhouse gas emissions affects public health and helps reduce healthcare costs
- Preventing child lead poisoning by integrating health in workplaces and homes
- I’ve got bad news and good news: How prevention can change the conversation around cancer pt.2
- Bridging the data equity gap
- Between the known, unknown, and the unknowable: How mathematical modeling of COVID-19 helped South Africa plan and shift scarce inpatient resources
- From the Dalkon Shield to Britney Spears’ IUD: Why diverse teams need to be involved in contraceptive design
- It’s the end of the world as we know it, but we feel fine: Prevention vs. Treatment pt.1
- Triggering veteran trauma and PTSD
- Understanding the risk of suicide
- Improving women’s health and wellbeing by better understanding postpartum urinary incontinence
- Disaster strikes. Who returns home? Understanding the plight of climate refugees.
- New BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Highlighting chronic kidney disease in Nicaragua and amplifying the voices of those most affected.
- Creating a healthy home is a community effort
- Substance use disorder vs. substance abuse – A disease NOT a personality flaw or moral failing
- There is no vaccine for climate change: COVID-19, climate, & the return to “normal”
- The imperative to advance adolescent health equity
- Research shows excess deaths of COVID-19 exceed reports by 20%
- Urban planning could make a difference in fighting obesity
- After the storm: Extreme weather research at BUSPH highlights the health impacts of Atlantic basin hurricanes
- Putting postpartum care into patients’ hands: using remote technology to prevent maternal morbidity and promote postpartum health equity
- Patient identification: A call to arms (or ears?)
- Collecting cardiovascular disease data on mobile devices
- Promising data for prediction of post-disaster mental health needs in an evolving disaster landscape
- Communicating and promoting replicability in science
- Type 2 diabetes, HIV, and tuberculosis in South Africa
- Big data analytics to tackle substance use disorders
- Genetics and age-related illnesses
- What is a healthy home?
- How healthy is your community? Building a new wellness index
- Can internet search data be leveraged to make home a safer place for women during a pandemic?
- Disability as identity: The next frontier of public health
- Is heat the most dangerous extreme weather event?
- Understanding Gulf War Illness and the search for promising treatments
- Technology, data, and urban health in Africa
- Identifying new pharmacologic treatments for trauma and PTSD
- Thinking beyond health care to improve health
Student health and wellbeing (K-12 and college)
Success story
- Can Cleaner Classroom Air Help Kids Do Better at School?: a Partnership with Boston Public Schools
- BUSPH’s Center for Climate and Health partnered with the Chicago Tribune to map heat risk and resources in Chicago
- Ernst & Young and BUSPH collaboration: Focusing on health equity to build better online health resources for women
- BUSPH researchers helps a mental health advocacy program for kids reach new heights during COVID-19 and beyond
- Community collaborations: extreme heat exposure reduction through long term relationships with Chelsea and East Boston
- Extreme heat may affect younger adults more than seniors
- Students collaborate with Starbucks to track COVID policy changes
- Google data shows effect of COVID-19 social distancing policies
- Fertility in older women and oral contraceptive use
- Easing implementation of government policies within public housing
- Mobile health interventions reduce healthcare costs and improve diabetes management