Boston University

Global Health

Global Health

Just Don’t Call It Edutainment

May 30, 2017

Madeleine Scammell, assistant professor of environmental health

Accolades

Scammell Wins NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Health Science Award

April 20, 2017

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

March 21, 2017

Gloria Waters, Vice President and Associate Provost for Research at Boston University, speaks during a meeting of the Boston Biosafety Committee to consider a request by Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) for permission to conduct Biosafety Level 4 research at the facility

NEIDL

NEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research

March 7, 2017

a mother holding a newborn's hand

HIV-AIDS

New Concerns about Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers

March 6, 2017

Davidson Hamer, professor at Boston University Center for Global Health & Development

Global Health

Understanding Zika’s Spread

February 15, 2017

insulin pen for diabetes treatment

Diabetes

US Deaths from Diabetes Significantly Underestimated

February 10, 2017

Newborn

Public Health

C-Section Rates Level Off After Sharp Increases

February 9, 2017

Ebola virus under a microscope

Ebola

Blood Test May Predict Who Lives or Dies with Ebola

January 23, 2017

rare earths mining

International Relations

Elements of Conflict

December 5, 2016

Veronika Wirtz

Global Health

In Essential Medicines Access, Progress and Challenges Around the World

November 30, 2016

Slash and burn deforestation in Colombia

Remote sensing

Satellite Images Map Deforestation

November 14, 2016

infant belly with umbilical cord

Global Health

Widely-Used Intervention Does Not Reduce Infant Deaths in Africa

September 29, 2016

Anthony Fauci, David Quammen Address NEIDL Inaugural Symposium

Global Health

NEIDL Symposium: Talking about Infectious Diseases

September 21, 2016

Author and Science Writer David Quammen

Communications

David Quammen to Speak at NEIDL Symposium Sunday

September 16, 2016

Female Aedes aegypti mosquito on skin

Zika Virus

Zika Strikes Miami

August 9, 2016

Kevin Outterson, professor of health law, Boston University School of Law

Antibiotics

Law School Guides Global Effort to Create New Antibiotics

July 28, 2016

Close-up photo of the prototype zika virus diagnostic test, reader and paper tests

Zika Virus

New Tool to Diagnose Zika

June 13, 2016

Sandro Galea, Dean, Boston University School of Public Health

Public Health

Sandro Galea’s Vision for Public Health

May 5, 2016

Sandro Galea’s Vision for Public Health