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COVID-19

New Estimates of Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths Reveal Critical Gaps in US Death Investigation System

March 20, 2026

Research

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

July 2, 2025

substance use disorder

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

healthcare disparities

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

May 23, 2025

TB

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

Featured

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."

overdose prevention

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

June 6, 2024

Thousands of small white flags planted in the grass with the Washington Monument in the background

strategic direction

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

February 6, 2024

Screenshot of Michael Che on SNL's Weekend Update with a photo of a puppy that reads "Owners question rabies vaccine"

SPH In the Media

SPH Research Featured on SNL… Again!

October 20, 2023

Nurse places hand on elderly man's shoulder

alzheimer’s/dementia

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

September 8, 2023