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PubMed Feed- Novel approach to the codesign of a tailored intervention bundle: applying theory with pragmatism
- Firearms as a Market-Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm-Related Harm in the United States
- The Impact of Indirect Transport to a Trauma Centre on Survival for Major Trauma Patients: A National Propensity-Adjusted Observational Study
- The Dual Burden of Weight in YMSM: Structural Inequities and Body Image Pressures
- Perinatal depression and breastfeeding: a longitudinal investigation of the bidirectional relationship in Pakistan
- Estrogen metabolites in premenopausal women living in China, Mongolia, and the United Kingdom
- Associations of social and genetic background variables to neuro-cognitive biomarkers of psychosis
- Adverse sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental healthcare in six low- and middle-income countries (MASC): a mixed-methods study with lessons for the future
- Cannabis Effects on Neurocognition and HIV-Related Outcomes: Protocol for a Longitudinal Observational Cohort Study
- Dispatch disparities: Neighborhood segregation as a predictor of EMS triage discordance among critically injured trauma patients
Author Archives: Andrew
A Mosquito’s Eye View of Rio das Pedras, Brazil using Mobile Image Collection
In Brazil, residents of informal communities are disproportionately affected by the Zika epidemic and ongoing threats from other mosquito-borne illnesses. Underdeveloped sanitation systems and poorly maintained streets are some of the many factors that contribute to mosquito reproduction and increase … Continue reading
Demand-Side Efficiency in Global Health
In a recent paper published in Health Policy and Planning, cluster faculty member Elizabeth Radin and her colleagues develop the concept of demand-side efficiency–or the efficiency with which health system users convert public health resources into health outcomes. They also propose methods … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity, Gender, Global Health, Health Disparities
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Steve Mooney receives Poster Award at Epidemiology Congress of the Americas 2016
Steve Mooney, one of our recently minted PhD’s, won a best poster presentation award at the 2016 Epidemiology Congress of the Americas for his work on the “Neighborhood Environment-Wide Association Study” design. New spatial tools and the expanding availability of … Continue reading
Cluster Faculty and Students at 2016 Epidemiology Congress of the Americas
Sessions: Kerry Keyes “How similar are survey respondents and the general population? Using survey-linked death records to compare mortality” Wednesday, 10-11:30am, in session “Putting Prior Information to Work” chaired by Tim Lash. Seth Prins “Identifying sensitive periods for the role … Continue reading
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Population Health Science, by Keyes and Galea
The book, Population Health Sciences, by Katherine Keyes and Sandro Galea will be coming out soon and will be available at the 2016 EpiCongress in Miami Florida. It is available for pre-order at the Oxford University Press website with a … Continue reading
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New Course for the Fall of 2016: Stress and Health
We are excited to announce a new class being taught Dr. Shakira Suglia; Stress and Health which will be launching in the Fall of 2016 and is part of the Social Determinants of Health MPH certificate program. This course will provide … Continue reading
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Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Convening
Dr. Suglia recently attended the Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Convening, where she presented her work on the neighborhood social environment and obesity prevention. To effectively prevent obesity in the US, this work proposes that rather than continue … Continue reading
Neighborhood Social Environment Contributions to Supporting Walking
JAMA just published an editorial co-written by Cluster faculty member, Andrew Rundle, entitled “Can Walkable Urban Design Play a Role in Reducing the Incidence of Obesity-Related Conditions?”. The editorial provides a perspective on a study published in JAMA by Creatore … Continue reading
In the Wrong Place with the Wrong SNP
Social Epi Cluster members Stephen Mooney and Gina Lovasi recently led an investigation into neighborhood and genetic contributions to cardiac arrest risk, finding that about 75% more cardiac arrest cases who had a high-risk genetic variant lived in socioeconomically deprived … Continue reading
Stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean
Larry Yang and colleagues recently published a systematic review of studies describing stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Declaration of Caracas in 1990 implemented a number of mental health reforms in countries of the region … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health, Stigma
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