SPH This Week

SPH This Week

September 9, 2018

Transgender Rights Ballot Battle: Whats at Stake?

Sep 12

1 to 2:15 p.m.

Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Boston

Think. Teach. Do.

For the Health of All

Research

External Economic and Policy Changes Influence Use of VA Services

Unemployment and increased housing costs drive up utilization, while Medicaid expansion drives it down.

Dean's Note

The Fight for Transgender Rights Is a Fight for Health

A note on the Massachusetts transgender rights law, the November ballot initiative to repeal it, and the public health importance of keeping the law by voting yes on Question 3.

PHX Podcast

Should We Pay People to Quit Smoking?

Discussing pragmatic trial of smoking cessation and examining pros and cons of surrogate endpoints.

Viewpoint

A Yes on 3 Vote Protects a Vulnerable Community. It Endangers No One.

On November 6, Massachusetts voters decide whether or not to preserve a law that helps transgender people live their lives with safety and dignity.

Research

After Massachusetts Policy Change, Homeless Children Seek Shelter at ER

Hundreds of homeless youth visit Boston Medical Centers pediatric emergency department to qualify for shelter after 2012 policy change, costing more than shelter itself.

School News

Professor Named Vice Chair of Environment and Reproduction Group

Lauren Wise appointed vice chair of Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group of American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

School News

Water Squad Helps Vulnerable Combat Summer Heat

Activist Lab volunteers bring community together by giving out bottles of water in neighborhood.

Recently at SPH

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'We're All Ready to Work Together'

At Public Health Forum, Ellis Rubinstein, president and CEO of New York Academy of Sciences, discussed ways in which science and technology can help advance UN Sustainable Development Goals.

In the Media

New York Times

A Little-Known Windfall for Some Hospitals, Now Facing Big Cuts opinion by Austin Frakt, associate professor of health law, policy & management.

WBUR

CommonHealth: The Latest on Alcohol, from Moderate Drinkings Health Effects to Underused Treatments interview with Richard Saitz, professor of community health sciences.

Lowell Sun

Actons Gouveia Moves on to General Election in the 14th Middlesex District profiles alumna and doctoral student Tami Gouveia.

HuffPost

Feeling Sick? You May Have a Case of Climate Change opinion by Dean Sandro Galea.

Boston Herald

Study: Working in Pain Linked to Opioid Deaths in Construction, Fishing Jobs quotes Les Boden, professor of environmental health.

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The Monthly Shaming of Women in State Prisons

Access to sanitary menstrual products is considered a basic human right in European prisons. Not so in the United States.

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