SPH This Month

SPH This Month

September 3, 2017

MessageS From the Dean

Back to School

Annual School Survey Is Now Open

Upcoming Signature Event

Spirituality and Public Health: How Religious Disciplines Impact Human Health

SEP 13

4:30 p.m.6 p.m.

Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Boston

Think. Teach. Do.

For the Health of All

Dean's Notes

07.23		On Schools of Public Health and the Need to Engage Difficult, Complex, Competing Ideas


07.16		On Compassion


07.09		On Responding to Unanticipated, Large-Scale Health Challenges


07.02		Transportation and the Health of Populations

access to medicines

Professor, Alumni Co-Author Journals Most Influential Article

Article by Richard Laing and alumni Abhishek Sharma and Lindsey Rorden was Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practices most influential of 2016.

gun safety

More Guns Now Being Purchased for Self-Defense Than Recreation

Guns are increasingly being viewed as having primary role in self-defense rather than hunting or sport.

in memoriam

In Memoriam:
Jim Burgess

Professor of health law, policy & management made major contributions to health economics field as researcher, editor, and teacher.

practicum

In Uganda to Serve

Together with other interns from Uganda Village Project, Emily Liebo works to improve community health and well-being in rural communities of Iganga District.

refugee Health

Training Clinicians to Improve Refugee Health

Experts in refugee health will share in three-year grant to train future physicians to better serve refugee and immigrant populations.

In Conversation With

I Dont See Demand Slowing Down

Associate Dean for Education Lisa Sullivan on new edition of her book, growing demand for biostatisticians, and helping students stop fearing math.

traumatic brain injury

Video / SPH

No Link Found Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Cognitive Decline

Relationship between TBI and long-term cognitive impacts poorly understood due to limitations of previous studies.

In the Media

Newsweek

Gun Sales Spike as People Buy Deadlier Weapons to Protect Themselves quotes Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences.

New York Times

Theres Only One Grocery Store in Most Rural Areas. Should We Expect Two Health Insurers? quotes Jon Kingsdale, associate professor of the practice of health law, policy & management.

Time

Racism Is Part of the Health Care Debate opinion by Dean Sandro Galea.

Washington Post

Some Scientists Have Been Their Own Guinea Pigs in the Lab quotes George Annas, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of health law, policy & management.

Boston Globe

Where Conditions Are Harsh, a Shelter Is Offered opinion by Jennifer Beard, clinical professor of global health.

Vox

Oregon Just Became the 5th State To Raise Its Smoking Age to 21 quotes William DeJong, professor of community health sciences.

WBUR

Measuring the Health of the Climate by How Sick We Arent opinion by Jonathan Levy, professor of environmental health, Madeleine L. Scammell, assistant professor of environmental health, and Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health.

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Viewpoint

Supervised Injection Facilities: The Time Is Now

By William N. Brownsberger, Senator, Second Suffolk and Middlesex District, Massachusetts

Senator William Brownsberger, sponsor of bill to create framework for legal operation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs) in Massachusetts, on debate surrounding SIFs.