Boston University

Global Health

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

Global Health

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

insulin pen for diabetes treatment

Diabetes

US Deaths from Diabetes Significantly Underestimated

February 10, 2017

Newborn

Public Health

C-Section Rates Level Off After Sharp Increases

February 9, 2017

Ebola virus under a microscope

Ebola

Blood Test May Predict Who Lives or Dies with Ebola

January 23, 2017

rare earths mining

International Relations

Elements of Conflict

December 5, 2016

cell culture in petri dishes

Research

POV: Unregulated Stem Cell Clinics Pose Real Threat

December 5, 2016

Veronika Wirtz

Global Health

In Essential Medicines Access, Progress and Challenges Around the World

November 30, 2016

Students gathered at the International Student Welcome at Metcalf Ballroom

Health & Medicine

International Education Week a Chance to Celebrate Diversity at BU

November 14, 2016

Slash and burn deforestation in Colombia

Remote sensing

Satellite Images Map Deforestation

November 14, 2016

infant belly with umbilical cord

Global Health

Widely-Used Intervention Does Not Reduce Infant Deaths in Africa

September 29, 2016

Anthony Fauci, David Quammen Address NEIDL Inaugural Symposium

Global Health

NEIDL Symposium: Talking about Infectious Diseases

September 21, 2016

Author and Science Writer David Quammen

Communications

David Quammen to Speak at NEIDL Symposium Sunday

September 16, 2016

Female Aedes aegypti mosquito on skin

Zika Virus

Zika Strikes Miami

August 9, 2016

Zika Strikes Miami