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alzheimer’s/dementia

Lowering Systolic Blood Pressure below 120 mmHg May Reduce Dementia Risk among Black, Latino Populations

July 12, 2024

New BU President Melissa Gilliam

President Melissa Gilliam

‘We’re Trying to Make a Difference in People’s Lives’

July 3, 2024

Eric Rubenstein and Gus Edouard present about their co-research team.

idea hub

Redefining Inclusion: Co-Researchers with Down Syndrome Set their Own Research Agenda

July 3, 2024

USA, New York, Manhattan streets. Skyscrapers and crowded streets, cars and busy people walking downtown in a spring sunny day

income

Income, Urbanicity Influence Perceptions of Factors that Shape Health

June 28, 2024

trauma and mental health

SPH Faculty and Students Honored by Society for Epidemiologic Research Conference

June 21, 2024

A woman waiting for pregnancy test results, holding her phone.

Epidemiology

Following Dobbs, PRESTO Pregnancy Planners Reduced Engagement with Fertility App

June 14, 2024

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."

Featured

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

Fulbright

Second 2024 SPH Alum Receives Fulbright Award

June 6, 2024

Charlotte Greenhill stands with arms crossed in front of the Talbot Building

alumni honors

SPH Graduate Selected for Fulbright Award

May 22, 2024

Power and People Symposium

energy systems

SPH Researchers Hold Symposium on Energy Systems and Health

May 15, 2024