From Lebanon, Lessons In Law And Life
This article was originally published HERE on April 27, 2017 on the Huffington Post. This article was written as a follow-up to a presentation given during the [...]
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Public Health in Pictures – 2017
We recently hosted an event that featured powerful speakers and inspiring art as part of our annual Public health matters series. This year’s event focused on [...]
Today is World Tuberculosis Day!
By Claire Vernon, PhD World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is celebrated each year on March 24.[1] Although it is a curable disease, TB was the world’s number one [...]
No Road Home: Three Doctors Reflect on Aleppo and the Future
The NPHR Blog is excited to feature this post, written by Sheila Burt, as an introduction to our upcoming Northwestern Public Health Review winter issue. Burt expertly weaves [...]
Public Health in the News- August 28th, 2016
Global Nigeria was set to celebrate being polio-free for two years this August. Despite efforts to eradicate this disease, two children in different parts of Borno state [...]
Public Health in the News- August 7th, 2016
Global A global public health crisis- the end of mercury pollution?? The Australian based laboratory of chemistry professor, Justin M. Chalker, may have a solution. His lab [...]
On the 2016 Olympic schedule: a public health match
by Claire Vernon Athletes and sports fans around the world are preparing for the 2016 Olympic Games which begin this Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1] but as we look [...]
NPHR Public Health News May 1st 2016
Global News Ever wonder whose job it is to go around during war to pull people from the rubble and provide emergency care? meet the white helmet brigade in Syria. Does the [...]
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