SPH This Week

SPH This Week

January 14, 2018

Upcoming Signature Program

Crises, Calamities, and Chaos: How Public Health Can Improve Response to Emerging Threats Wherever They Arise

JAN 17

4:30 to 6 p.m.

Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Boston

Think. Teach. Do.

For the Health of All

Research

Adolescent Cocaine Use Increasing Again

After general decline in 1990s, adolescent cocaine use increased from 2009 to 2015, with most dramatic rise among black boys and highest rate among Hispanic boys.

School News

Professor Honored by NIH

Jacob Bor selected to deliver Early Stage Investigator Lecture at National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention on March 19.

Research

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Better Data Collection Needed to Reduce Maternal Mortality

Rising mortality rates may partly own to overreporting and flawed data collection system.

Dean's Note

Why Racism Undermines the Health of the Public

When the President seeks to exclude immigrants based on race, he nudges society in an unhealthy direction.

Research

From Nuremberg to Guantánamo, Medical Professionals Enabled Torture

Similarities seen between use of medical professionals in Holocaust and War on Terror.

In the Media

Los Angeles Times

Birth Control Is Every Womans RightFrom Those Who Want to Prevent Pregnancy, to Others Who Use It to Treat Illness opinion by student Kristyn Brandi.

New York Times

A Memory Shortcut, With a Little Help from Friends opinion co-authored by Austin Frakt, associate professor of health law, policy & management.

USA Today

Refugee Admissions to US Plummet in 2017 quotes alumnus Ali Noorani.

Gulf Times

Air Pollution Tied to Birth Defects quotes Shruthi Mahalingaiah, assistant professor of epidemiology.

Texas Tribune

Maternal Deaths Are Increasing in Texas, but Probably Not as Much as Officials Thought mentions Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.

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NEPHTC Student Field Placements and FacultyStudent Projects

The New England Public Health Training Center has funding for two facultystudent collaborative projects or student field placements, like the one Deirdre Martinez Meehan completed at the DartmouthHitchcock perinatal addiction treatment program. Read Deirdres story, then apply today!

Low Birth Weights after ICE Raid

Evidence shows aggressive immigration policy has a tangible health impact. Infants born to Latina mothers had a greater risk of low birth weights after the Postville, Iowa, ICE raid.

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Watch the Recap of PHX Story Mapping Webinar Now

Did you miss the Winter Institute webinar on story mapping? The full recording of "Engage and Inspire Your Audience with Story Maps" is now available to view on our website.