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TO THE CLASS OF 2025

A Letter to Our Graduates

SPH snapshot

SPH Snapshot: Convocation Season 2025

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Research

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
All News

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
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health inequities

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
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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
Rhodesian ridgeback puppy second vaccination in vet clinic
vaccines

Nearly Half of Dog Owners Are Hesitant to Vaccinate Their Pets

August 31, 2023
Young African American woman taking a Self-swabbing home tests for COVID-19 at home with Antigen kit
covid-19

8 Latin American Governments Distributed Ivermectin Without Evidence to Treat COVID ​​​​​​​

June 16, 2023
Viewpoint

COVID-19 Deaths in the US Continue to Be Undercounted, Research Shows, Despite Claims of ‘Overcounts’

January 25, 2023
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health policy

Paid Sick Leave May Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake

November 22, 2022

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