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health policy

Many Hookah Manufacturers Have Not Complied with FDA-Mandated Nicotine Warning Labels

February 7, 2024

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COVID-19

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

February 6, 2024

addiction

Alum Directs First State-Funded Hotline to Prevent Fatal Overdoses

February 3, 2024

Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor of environmental health.

Environmental Health

Professor Receives NIH Grant to Study Impact of Extreme Heat on Mental Health

February 2, 2024

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Students

What Constitutes the “Core” of Public Health?

February 2, 2024

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Alumni

Q&A with Alum Danielle McPeak

January 26, 2024

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mental and behavioral health

Addressing College Mental Health ‘Cannot Fall Solely to the Campus Health System’

January 26, 2024

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dean's note

Dean’s Note: Should We Take Sides?

January 26, 2024

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Alumni

Accidental Death Rates among US Soldiers Deployed in Afghanistan/Iraq Wars Differ by Time Since Deployment, Age, and Gender

January 25, 2024

Boston University School of Public Health Talbot Building

dean's note

Revisiting the Principles of Free and Inclusive Academic Speech

January 19, 2024