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 [...]
Spotlights
Access to Health in Lagos: An Interdisciplinary Partnership with the Community
By Elise Meyer The majority of Lagos’ 20 million inhabitants live in slums or informal settlements where health outcomes are poor, sometimes even worse than those in rural [...]
The Importance of Mental Health Education in Schools
By Kacey Suvada At the start of my third year of graduate school, I realized I needed to do [...]
Remember the ladies: 6 women who made a difference in public health
By Virginia Nowakowski, NPHR Editor What do public health nerds and Game of Thrones fans have in common? “Jon Snow.” Anyone who studies public health has learned about [...]
Mummies had cancer? A brief history of a long-lived disease
By Virginia Nowakowski, NPHR Editor One hundred years ago, you were most likely to die from pneumonia. That’s if tuberculosis or diarrhea didn’t finish you off, according [...]
Using Stories to Humanize the Refugee Crisis
By Sheila Burt Following a brief post in September, Sheila Burt reports in more detail on “Forced From Home,” a Doctors Without Borders exhibition that aims to educate [...]
“Forced from Home” seeks to personalize the lives of global refugees
By Sheila Burt In the Daley Plaza courtyard, a series of tents portray what life is like for the millions of people around the globe being forced to flee their homes due to [...]
New NPHR Print Issue! – All of Us in the Age of Precision Medicine
We are both pleased and proud to present our latest issue, now available to read in full online! Cover Photo by Isabel Romero Calvo, PhD From All of Us to Precision Medicine [...]
