SPH This Week

SPH This Week

February 21, 2016

SIGNATURE EVENT

Public Health Forum Presents Stefano M. Bertozzi

Wednesday, February 24, 4:30 pm 6:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.

The substantial burden of substance use and its consequences worldwide represents a challenge to public health.

[VIDEO] Community input into implementation and funding for smoking cessation programs are essential to new rule's success.

Lack of market competition among factors driving up prices and hampering access.

Assistant professor and Gulf War Illness researcher Kimberly Sullivan responds to Institute of Medicines dismissal of chemical causes.

BU Superfund Research Program mini-symposium reflects on how water safety goes wrong scientifically, politically, and socially.

Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) receives NIH grant to continue through 2018.

Washington Post
Scientists Cant Agree Whether Salt Is Killing Us. Heres Why. references study co-authored by Dean Sandro Galea.

Radio France Internationale
Was the Rise in Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone Caused by Sexual Violence? interview with Monica Onyango, clinical assistant professor of global health.

Prevention
9 Conditions That Increase Your Risk of Early Menopause references study co-authored by Fangui (Jenny) Sun, research assistant professor of biostatistics; Paola Sebastiani, professor of community health sciences; and SPH researchers Harold Bae and Avery McIntosh.

Sentinel & Enterprise News
Fitchburg State Names New Provost profiles alumnus Alberto J.F. Cardelle.

BU Today
Show Me the Data references Josée Dupuis, professor of biostatistics.

School Assembly for Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 8:45 am 10:50 am, Hiebert Lounge.

BUSPH Career Fair
Thursday, February 25, 2:00 pm 6:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.