What the T Can Tell Us about Health Inequalities
A pictorial essay Sandro Galea is dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health and a professor of epidemiology. Photo courtesy of Sandro Galea. There are many lenses through which to examine the health of a community. For example, Massachusetts has about 315 doctors per 100,000 people—more than 10 percent higher than the next closest state […]
SPH Students Create Multi-Faceted Program for South End Community Center
Rupal Shah, left, and Sarah Stevens answer questions from judges James Wolff, professor of global health, and Gail Steketee, dean of the School of Social Work. In just five tightly focused days, a team of SPH students created a far-ranging plan that might help a South End community center improve the health of the people […]
Making TB the Next Polio
BU team lands $21 million NIH grant to study the disease When Jerrold Ellner started working in infectious disease, schistosomiasis was a greater concern to international health professionals than tuberculosis. Fast forward a few decades and TB is now among the greatest public health threats worldwide. There are nine million new cases and three million […]
Higher Alcohol Taxes May Lead to Less Binge Drinking
BU public health study finds strong correlation between price and alcohol consumption Study lead author Ziming Xuan of SPH says researchers’ findings are “really significant for public health,” because binge drinking causes more than half of nearly 90,000 alcohol-attributable deaths in the United States. In 2010, Tennessee, which has the country’s highest combined taxes on […]
New Dean Sandro Galea: Pushing to ‘Elevate’ Public Health
On September 11, 2001, Sandro Galea was at his office at the New York Academy of Medicine on Fifth Avenue when he saw billows of smoke rising from the twin towers. An epidemiologist and physician who had trained in emergency medicine, he headed for the nearest hospital, Mt. Sinai, to volunteer to treat what he […]
Five BU Medical Campus Faculty Honored by Their Peers
Elected Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Five faculty at the Boston University Medical Campus have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. David Michael Center, BU School of Medicine (MED) professor of medicine and biochemistry and associate provost […]
Learning What Makes Local Governments Tick, Here and Abroad
Initiative on Cities put three student fellows in public service this summer How did you spend your summer? Hannah Carey assisted in a trial of a new medication for treating gonorrhea, interviewing subjects and taking their vital information, among other tasks. (She also made some dinner companions squirm when they asked about her work.) Chelsea […]
School of Public Health Has a New Dean
Sandro Galea: physician, epidemiologist, researcher, author Sandro Galea, an internationally respected physician and epidemiologist known for his research linking health to such social disadvantages as poverty and lack of education, has been appointed the new dean of the School of Public Health. Galea, currently the Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and chair […]