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Insights from the Dean

A Year of Gratitude, Progress, and Purpose

Gas City - July 22, 2025: SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide benefits to help the budgets of disadvantaged families.
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“Remember Every One”: Memorializing the More Than 1 Million Lives Lost to COVID-19 in the US

March 5, 2025
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NIH-funded Research Drives Innovation at SPH

February 15, 2025
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Paid Parental Leave and Infectious Disease Risk Among Infants

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A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."
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Child Tax Credits Provided Significant Relief to Families Experiencing Economic Shocks during COVID

February 16, 2024
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New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths

February 6, 2024

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