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PubMed Feed- Evaluating Litigation as a Structural Strategy for Addressing Bias-Based Bullying Among Youth
- Neighborhood Factors Associated with Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Achieving Sustained HIV Viral Suppression Among Miami-Dade County Ryan White Program Clients
- Free Time For Wellness: a co-designed intervention utilizing social networks to encourage physical activity for cancer prevention among low resourced mothers
- Trends in Ketamine Use, Exposures, and Seizures in the United States
- Association of Childhood Adversity With Morbidity and Mortality in US Adults: A Systematic Review
- Have we overlooked the influence of "wine-mom" culture on alcohol consumption among mothers?
- A mixed-methods study of multi-level factors influencing mammography overuse among an older ethnically diverse screening population: implications for de-implementation
- The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development: A Nationwide U.S. Multi-cohort Study
- Men's comfort in distributing or receiving HIV self-test kits from close male social network members in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: baseline results from the STEP project
- Assumptions not often assessed or satisfied in published mediation analyses in psychology and psychiatry
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Blues and Pews: Explaining US adolescent depressive symptom trends through declines in religious beliefs and service attendance
Depressive symptoms have been spiking among US adolescents for nearly a decade, and the by Noah Kreski and colleagues aimed to examine the role of religious factors in this growing trend. Historically, religious engagement has been linked to better mental … Continue reading
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COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates and spatial socio-demographics in New York City
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit members, Byoungjun Kim, Andrew Rundle, Christopher Morrison, Charles Branas, and Dustin Duncan recently published research regarding neighborhood-level social and built environments as potential determinants of COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates in New York City. There is emerging … Continue reading
Gun Violence in a Time of COVID
COVID-19 and efforts to contain its spread have affected almost all aspects of our daily lives over the last year. Risks for crime and violence are no different. Early during the pandemic reports emerged of increased incidence of gun violence … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Gun Violence, Injury
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Innovative Responses to Pandemic Related Disruptions in School Meal Programs
School meals are a vital source of federal food assistance; the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs serve approximately 30 million lunches and 15 million breakfasts daily at low or no cost to students. At the start of the … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Adversity, COVID-19, Food Insecurity
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – Advanced Training in Environmental Health and Data Science: Molecules to Populations
Postdoctoral Fellowship Advanced Training in Environmental Health and Data Science Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University The Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health … Continue reading
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“I’m Not a Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up as British-Bangladeshi Girls
Most people wish to banish the awkwardness and confusion of puberty from their memories, but for Lauren Houghton, puberty has been the focus of her research for more than a decade. Fascinated by the opportunity it presented for biosocial inquiry, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity, Gender, Immigration, Mixed Methods, Social Environments
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Trends in U.S. Women’s Binge Drinking in Middle Adulthood by Socioeconomic Status, 2006-2018
Cluster members Sarah McKetta and Katherine Keyes recently published research regarding national trends in binge drinking among women in the mid-life. Multiple national surveys have found that women in the mid-life (~30-49) have dramatically increased binge drinking in recent years. … Continue reading
Engaging with movement demands on their own terms: Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore makes the case for abolition
There’s been much discussion about what organizers and protesters “really mean” by their demands to defund the police and abolish police and prisons, as those ideas enter the mainstream discourse. One troubling pattern is emerging in these discussions among commentators … Continue reading
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How neighborhoods and infrastructure can impact HIV transmission among Black sexual minority men
Individual risky behaviors (ex. condomless sex, multiple partners, drug use) have long been a focus of HIV research and intervention strategies for sexual minority men (SMM). However, focusing on the individual level obscures the effects of broader societal influences and … Continue reading
“Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act”1: Racial sexual exclusivity as both an effect and a protection against discrimination for Black sexual minority men
Often in public health, sexual relationships between Black gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM) are framed as sources of risk and disease, especially in terms of HIV transmission. However, Black queer activists have long known that cultivating loving … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Ethnicity, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Race, Racism, Social Networks
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