Spotlights
By Rachel Iannotti Last week the US kicked off Hepatitis Awareness Week on July 26th in preparation for World Hepatitis Day which is recognized annually on July 28th. This
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August 1, 2022 // 0 Comments
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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March 9, 2021 // 0 Comments
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
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December 23, 2019 // 0 Comments
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
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June 17, 2019 // 0 Comments
By Kacey Suvada At the start of my third year of graduate school, I realized I needed to do
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May 21, 2019 // 1 Comment
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
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April 4, 2019 // 0 Comments
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
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February 4, 2019 // 0 Comments
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
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November 14, 2018 // 0 Comments