SPH This Week

SPH This Week

September 27, 2015

SIGNATURE EVENT

Tuesday, September 29, 4:30 pm 6:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.

How does lifecourse context, if unaccounted for, challenge findings from our empiric population health science studies?

[VIDEO] New twist in Nicaragua disease mystery: signs of early kidney damage in adolescents.

Higher adult gun ownership levels also associated with higher prevalence of youth carrying guns.

Focused strategies needed to assuage the concerns of vaccination skeptics.

Findings have led to better understanding of causal effect of offering patients immediate access to antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Sarah Degnan Kambou ('84, UNI'94), president of International Center for Research on Women, will receive award during Alumni Weekend.

Doctoral candidate Elizabeth Henry awarded Vietnamese Ministry of Healths top honor for work to advance hospital nutrition.

CNN
Study: Stricter State Gun Laws Keep Firearms Out of Hands of Youth quotes Ziming Xuan, assistant professor of community health sciences.

Slate
How the Government Could Punish That Hedge Fund Bro Who Wanted to Raise a Drugs Price 5,000 Percent quotes Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management.

BU Today
Sexual Misconduct Survey Guides Plan for Action quotes Sophie Godley, assistant professor of community health sciences, and Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences.

Genetic Literacy Project
Precision MedicineNext New Thing or Over Hyped Bust? (Or Both?) references article co-authored by Dean Sandro Galea.

Student Senate General Body Meeting
Monday, September 28, 5:00 pm 6:00 pm, L311.

School Assembly for Faculty & Staff
Tuesday, September 29, 8:45 am 10:50 am, Hiebert Lounge.