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Major cuts to Medicaid funding could have rural communities across the country facing widespread hospital closures and reduced access to healthcare, says Michael Shepherd, a health policy researcher at the University of Michigan.
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The University of Michigan School of Public Health has launched a bold new campaign to highlight the critical impact of public health research. This comes at a time when changes to federal funding have created an uncertain future for life-saving health research.
Groundbreaking hearing health research is being conducted by Michigan Public Health in collaboration with Apple and the World Health Organization (WHO) advancing our understanding of how exposure to certain sound levels over time may impact hearing.
University of Michigan researchers are conducting surveys to understand how climate shocks like flooding, drought, and extreme heat affect health and well-being among communities in low- and middle-income countries.
University of Michigan School of Public Health Dean F. DuBois Bowman will become the president of Morehouse College, effective July 15, 2025. This appointment represents a homecoming for Bowman, who earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Morehouse.
The Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health recently celebrated a remarkable milestone—25 years of groundbreaking research that has fundamentally changed how we understand the social determinants of health.
In an urgent commentary published in the journal Lancet HIV, University of Michigan researchers joined scientists from Emory and Yale universities to urge the scientific community and the public to resist the "erasure" of trans people from HIV research.
Medications proven to effectively treat opioid addiction are rarely given after emergency department visits for overdose, and who gets them varies, sometimes greatly, depending on race, ethnicity or geography, University of Michigan researchers say.
Kristen J. Sarri, MPH ’97, addressed the University of Michigan School of Public Health graduating Class of 2025 during commencement May 1 at historic Hill Auditorium with a reminder of what lies ahead: “Public health isn't glamorous work.”