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Alumna delivers message to Class of 2024: ‘Everybody has the right to good health’
On May 2, 2024, the University of Michigan School of Public Health celebrated more than 400 graduates during commencement at the historic Hill Auditorium who received 286 master’s degrees, 100 undergraduate degrees and 28 doctoral degrees. Jodi-Ann Burey, MPH ’14, addressed the Class of 2024, thanking them for persevering during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Q&A with Alison Miller
University of Michigan researchers are working on a new study seeking to engage firearm-owning parents of young children in a community-based project to assess perceptions of firearm injury risk and safe firearm storage.
New research from Elisa Maffioli
In this Q&A, Michigan Public Health and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers discuss recent research discovering that cellphone coverage was associated with a significant reduction in Ebola cases during the 2014 outbreak in Liberia.
Abrupt policy shift removed a unique barrier to prescribing buprenorphine, but didn’t lead to a sharp rise in prescribing by the end of the first year