Vaccine Hesitancy in the COVID-19 Era
By Sapna Suresh In 1998, a then-credible British scientist named Andrew Wakefield published a seemingly groundbreaking study in the medical journal The Lancet. The article [...]
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Yemen is on the edge of a cliff. Will COVID-19 push it over?
By Giancarlo Atassi, MPH; Nina Zhou, BA; and Alexandra Isaia, BS COVID-19 continues to take a significant toll on the global community. In the United [...]
Entertainment as a Tool for Health Behavior Change
By Sapna Suresh The radio soap opera Toma mi Mano, a 156-episode Spanish-language program broadcast across all 22 departments in Guatemala, features Ruth: a young woman who [...]
Announcing our New Print Issue – Allergy
We are excited to announce our latest print issue, Allergy. In this issue, we explore the dynamic chronic disease of allergies from both an individual and a population-based [...]
Public Health in the News (1/1/20 – 1/11/20)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief National The American Cancer Society reported that cancer death rates in United States had the largest single-year drop between 2016 [...]
Forced from Home: One Year Later
By Sheila Burt In the fall of 2018, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) held the interactive exhibition “Forced from Home” in the Daley Plaza to [...]
Public Health in the News (9/15/19 – 10/5/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global India banned the sale of electronic cigarettes.New study suggests association between congenital heart defects and [...]
Public Health in the News (9/8/19 – 9/14/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief National The Trump administration plans to ban flavored e-cigarettes in response to the vaping crisis.The U.S. Census Bureau [...]
