Public Health in the News (8/4/19 – 8/10/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global The World Resources Institute reported that a quarter of the world’s population is living in countries facing water [...]
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Public Health in the News (6/9/19 – 6/29/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global New study shows that vaccines against the human papillomavirus have reduced infections, warts, and precancerous lesions [...]
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 [...]
Public Health in the News (5/19/19 – 5/25/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global The Philippines is experiencing one of the world’s worst measles outbreaks, with more than 33,000 cases since [...]
Public Health in the News (3/31/19 – 4/6/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global Yemen is experiencing a cholera outbreak, with 76,152 new cases in March alone. Large study of 195 countries finds that [...]
Public Health in the News (3/24/19 – 3/30/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 1,000 cases and is now the second-deadliest outbreak in [...]
Public Health in the News (1/27/19 – 2/9/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global New report shows that 45 packaged fruit juices tested positive for heavy metals. The measles outbreak in the Philippines is [...]
Public Health in the News (1/20/19 – 1/26/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global New study suggests that a blood test for a certain protein may predict Alzheimer’s disease up to 16 years before [...]
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