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A recent study led by Michigan Public Health researchers offers new insights into why water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions sometimes fall short, and how to approach the developments of more effective public health strategies.
Learn how the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization impacts global health and safety in a post-pandemic world.
Twenty U-M faculty leaders were named ‘Innovation Champions’ by the university's Office of the Vice President of Research. This inaugural cohort will serve as peer-level departmental contacts, sharing information and resources to amplify the impact of researcher innovations.
The University of Michigan School of Public Health hosted a vital conversation between Gina McCarthy, the first White House National Climate advisor and former US EPA Administrator, and Dean F. DuBois Bowman. As part of the biannual “Ahead of the Curve” speaker series held virtually Jan. 16, she reflected on the impact of investing in a sustainable future.
Irina Gaynanova and Xu Shi, both associate professors of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, received the 2025 IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award for their advances in statistical methodology and leadership in the field.
A research letter published in JAMA Network Open reveals a surprising divide among older Americans about when to stop colon cancer screening. While medical guidelines suggest halting routine screenings at age 75, nearly 40% of adults find this recommendation unacceptable—regardless of their personal health status.
University of Michigan researchers dug deeper into the narratives behind the numerical data of COVID-19-era suicides to inform future public health responses.
Loneliness and isolation among older Americans have mostly returned to pre-pandemic rates, but that still means more than one third of people age 50 to 80 feel lonely, and nearly as many feel isolated, new findings show.
Curbing mosquito-borne disease transmission requires giving less weight to the perspectives of distant bureaucrats and center mosquitoes and the people exposed to them in public health response.
Women who have had a stroke may be less likely than men to take medications to prevent a second stroke, with Mexican American women reporting the highest rates of nonadherence, according to a new study from University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers.