World Hepatitis Day: for awareness, education, and remembrance
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 [...]
Spotlights
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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