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Safe Harbor: David Rosenbloom
David Rosenbloom, a professor of health law and policy & management at Boston University School of Public Health, talks about big pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, and public health’s role in overcoming it.
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One-Fifth of Young Drinkers Report Consuming ‘Jello Shots'
About one in five underage youths reported consuming alcoholic jello shots in the past 30 days, and those youths were more likely to binge drink, consume more alcohol, and to have been involved in physical fights related to their drinking than their [...]peers who did not consume jello shots, a study led by a School of Public Health researcher shows.
In the study, published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences, and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and Fiorente Media Inc. of Boston used a national sample of 1,031 youths, ages 13 to 20, to assess past 30-day consumption of jello shots.
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Dr. Paul Farmer, The Current State of Global Health
On November 4, 2015, Dr. Paul Farmer came to the College of General Studies for the 25th annual Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series to give a lecture on the current state of global health. The lecture lasted approximately one hour, followed [...]by a 30 minute Q&A session.
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Pornography: a Growing Public Health Concern?
A discussion at the Boston University School of Public Health features a screening of the documentary " The Price of Pleasure," which examines the rising influence of pornography in popular culture.
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Dr. William Bicknell: Lessons Learned from a Life in Public Health
Dr. William Bicknell delivers an uninhibited personal reminiscence of a unique and remarkable career working on the front lines of public health in the U.S. and 60 other countries.
Co-sponsored by the Boston University School of Public Health [...]and the Boston Medical Center Department of Family Medicine on May 2, 2012.
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YouSpeak: Birth Control
BU Today asks students whether they think employers and health insurance companies should be able to deny women coverage for free birth control on religious or moral grounds.
Read the full story on BU Today: [...]http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/youspeak-birth-control/
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Peace Core Chronicles: Cabul Mehta
Cabul Mehta (SPH’10, GSM’10) shares his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana from 2004-2006.
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Peace Corps Chronicles: William Bicknell
William Bicknell shares his experiences as a Peace Corps doctor in Ethiopia from 1964-1966.
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Saving Young Lives in Zambia
Anti-malarial drugs are being used inappropriately for sick children in Zambia -- a problem that can be addressed by arming community health workers with a simple rapid-diagnostic test and a supply of antibiotics, a study led by researchers at Boston [...]University School of Public Health has found.
Listen to Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, assistant professor of international health at BUSPH, and David Hamer, professor of international health at BUSPH, discuss the study.
Learn more at sph.bu.edu/treatingmalaria
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