Boston University

Global Health

Prototype of an HPV point-of-care diagnostic test in the lab of Catherine Klapperich

Engineering

How Point-of-Care Testing Will Transform Healthcare

April 5, 2018

Ebola virus. Symptoms like fever and fatigue appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to the virus; the average is 8 to 10 days. The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic killed 11,000 people.

Infectious Diseases

Diagnosing Ebola before Symptoms Arrive

March 29, 2018

View of a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon

Public Health

Improving Life in Lebanon’s Refugee Camps

February 27, 2018

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

Yanomami women's leaders Floriza da Cruz Pinto and Maria de Jesus Lima, speak at BU Hillel about struggles over indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Pardee School of Global Studies

Yanomami Women Speak of Amazon Struggles

December 19, 2017

Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) researchers at Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) Judith Olejnik, Elke Mühlberger, and Adam Hume

Ebola

NEIDL BSL-4 Lab Gets Green Light

December 6, 2017

Sick kid with high fever laying in bed while mother checks the temperature

Global Health

TB as Major Cause of Death among Children Worldwide

November 30, 2017

The SPH professors hosting the Free Associations podcast: are Donald Thea (from left), Matthew Fox, and Chris Gill. Photos by Nick Gooler, School of Public Health

Disease

SPH Podcast on Health Studies Helps You Lose Weight (Not Really)

September 11, 2017

bad medicine

Global Health

Bad Medicine

August 8, 2017

Man shucks an ear of corn in a corn field. USDA photo by Christina Reed.

Climate Change

What If the World’s Major Food Crops Fail at the Same Time?

June 20, 2017

Global Health

Just Don’t Call It Edutainment

May 30, 2017

Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winner, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego

Global Health

Nobel Winner Mario Molina Is Baccalaureate Speaker

May 17, 2017

Madeleine Scammell, assistant professor of environmental health

Accolades

Scammell Wins NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Health Science Award

April 20, 2017

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

March 21, 2017

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Public Policy

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Free Doctor and Drinkable Water signs in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Eidomeni, Greece

Voices & Opinion

POV: Health Care Professionals Must Redouble Efforts to Care for Refugees

March 7, 2017

Gloria Waters, Vice President and Associate Provost for Research at Boston University, speaks during a meeting of the Boston Biosafety Committee to consider a request by Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) for permission to conduct Biosafety Level 4 research at the facility

NEIDL

NEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research

March 7, 2017

a mother holding a newborn's hand

HIV-AIDS

New Concerns about Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers

March 6, 2017

Davidson Hamer, professor at Boston University Center for Global Health & Development

Global Health

Understanding Zika’s Spread

February 15, 2017

Understanding Zika’s Spread