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school news

SPH Plugs In: Summer Content Recommendations

June 21, 2024

Awards

SPH Faculty and Students Honored by Society for Epidemiologic Research Conference

June 21, 2024

Jonathan Lee and Ameera Saba install a heat sensor in a tree while Isabella Gambill and Adam Lauziere-Vecanski look on.

Students

Heatwave Watch

June 20, 2024

Black Woman Suffering From Headache in Clinic

health disparities

More than 1 in 10 Patients at FQHCs Experience Major Social Risk Factors

June 17, 2024

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Featured

Following Dobbs, PRESTO Pregnancy Planners Reduced Engagement with Fertility App

June 14, 2024

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dean's note

Facing Our History on Juneteenth

June 14, 2024

migration

PhD Student Presents Research at Puerto Rican Conference on Public Health

June 14, 2024

Biostatistics

Professor Awarded Data Science Fellowship

June 12, 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."

Research

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

June 6, 2024

Global Health

Second 2024 SPH Alum Receives Fulbright Award

June 6, 2024