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 [...]
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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 [...]
Public Health in the News (5/12/19 – 5/18/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global African swine fever outbreaks in Asia are leading to shortage of pork. National The CDC reported that the United States [...]
Public Health in the News (4/21/19 – 5/4/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global The World Health Organization announced that Malawi became the first country to start immunizing children against [...]
Public Health in the News (11/11/18 – 11/17/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global The rate of sudden cardiac death is twice as high in African Americans compared to caucasians. Europe’s drug regulatory [...]
How to Solve the Opioid Epidemic in Chicago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Prevention
By Elise Meyer In October 2017, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law hosted a roundtable to discuss the opioid epidemic in Chicago and its surrounding counties. The full-day [...]
Public Health in the News (6/10/18 – 6/16/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Australian study shows that an H.I.V. prevention drug decreased infection rates, despite reductions in condom use among gay and [...]
Public Health in the News (6/3/18 – 6/9/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization announced an outbreak of Nipah virus in India, with 17 people having died from the disease [...]
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