SPH This Week

SPH This Week

June 25, 2017

DEAN'S NOTE

The Public Health Dividend

How does investment in the health of populations yield financial returns?

NEWS

Psychological Distress Among Slaughterhouse Workers Warrants Further Study

Workers in industrial slaughterhouse experienced higher prevalence of serious psychological distress compared to population-wide rates.

Reassuring Data Found on ART Outcomes

Women treated with assisted reproductive technology (ART) were likely to have non-assisted ART pregnancies at rates similar to non-delivery hospitalizations.

In the Field in Zambia: I Want to Do Your Story Justice

[VIDEO] Student Kalpita Patel visits maternal waiting homes to help promote MAHMAZ project combating maternal mortality.

Professor Receives Education Innovation Award

Megan Healey honored at John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day on May 31.

IN CONVERSATION WITH

I Dont See Demand Slowing Down

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

FROM PUBLIC HEALTH POST

Profile: Karen DeSalvo

Former acting assistant secretary at Department of Health and Human Services in Obama Administration on lack of understanding among national health leaders about public health.

by David K. Jones, Editor-in-Chief, Public Health Post, and Qing Wai Wong, PHP Fellow

FROM POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGE

Thank You from PHX

Thank you to everyone who participated in our inaugural PHX Summer Institute, where we welcomed more than 100 people to campus. Follow us on Twitter (@PopHealthEx) to see photos from the week.

IN THE MEDIA

Boston Globe
Water at States Largest Prison Raises Concerns quotes Wendy J. Heiger-Bernays, associate professor of environmental health; and Birgit Claus Henn, associate professor of environmental health.

Reuters
U.S. Youth Tobacco Use in 2016 Fell by Largest Amount in 6 Years quotes Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences.

Fortune
America Spends the Most on Healthcare but Isnt the Healthiest Country opinion by Dean Sandro Galea.

LOOKING AHEAD

Faculty Senate Meeting
Tuesday, June 27, 12:30 pm 1:50 pm, Crosstown 305.

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