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school news

SPH Debuts New PhD in Community Health Sciences

The one-of-a-kind social and behavioral sciences-focused doctoral program will emphasize social justice and community engagement.

viewpoint

College Shouldn’t Be a Relapse Risk: Why Collegiate Recovery Programs Deserve Sustainable Funding

covid.

income and health

Child Tax Credit Increased Food Security, Stable Housing among Young Children, but Many Eligible Families Didn’t Receive It

July 2, 2025
Epidemiology

Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Are Driving the Increase in US Excess Mortality—and Adults Without College Degrees Are Bearing Most of the Burden

June 13, 2025
mortality

US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 23, 2025
tuberculosis

Many TB Cases May Have Gone Undetected in Prisons in Europe and the Americas During COVID-19

March 31, 2025
Percent Positivity of COVID-19
Research

COVID-19 in 2025: ‘A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One’

March 8, 2025
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."
Alumni

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

June 6, 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
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SPH In the Media

SPH Research Featured on SNL… Again!

October 20, 2023
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alzheimer’s/dementia

After 2020 Increase, Excess Mortality among People with Dementia Drops in Year 2 of COVID

September 8, 2023
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vaccines

Nearly Half of Dog Owners Are Hesitant to Vaccinate Their Pets

August 31, 2023

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