BU Awarded $23.4 Million NIH Grant
For turning discoveries into treatments, diagnostics, improved health David Center directs Boston University’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute, which received an NIH renewal grant to help investigators on both campuses conduct multidisciplinary clinical research. Photo by Cydney Scott. BU’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has been awarded a $23.4 million, four-year National Institutes of […]
Sexual Misconduct Survey Guides Plan for Action
Questionnaire’s results: concerning numbers, commitment to improve Responses to the Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey showed that 73 percent of sexual assault survivors told a friend what had happened. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Nine out of ten BU students who completed a survey on sexual misconduct in March said they feel safe on campus, and three […]
VA Honors Public Health Professor with Top Research Award
Cited for “exceptional achievement” in improving quality of health care for veterans Dan Berlowitz, a professor of health policy and management at Boston University’s School of Public Health (SPH), has been named the recipient of the US Department of Veterans Affair’s 2015 Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research. The award is […]
Following in a Legendary Humanitarian’s Footsteps
Two BU students named Albert Schweitzer Fellows Amanda Alon (CAS’12, MED’14, SDM’18) (left) will encourage better dental care among low-income children in Lawrence with her Schweitzer Fellowship. Aline Souza (MED’16) will use her fellowship to improve the heart health of homeless Bostonians. Photos courtesy of BU School of Medicine. Two BU students will honor the […]
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 […]