Michigan Public Health News Center

Michigan Public Health professor Michael Shepherd discusses rural healthcare on university podcast

Shepherd, an assistant professor of health management and policy, joins the Michigan Minds podcast to discuss how healthcare has become one of voters' top priorities, especially in rural America, where hospital closures, Medicaid changes and partisan identity intersect.

New research gauges community immunity to valley fever as fungal infection cases increase

First such study in decades strengthens public health response, informs vaccine design

University of Michigan researchers will determine how much of the population still lacks immunity to valley fever, a fungal infection caused by inhalation of spores that can be carried through the air in the dust of dry soils.

Global Public Health leader: Connection is our greatest protection

Dr. Raj Panjabi, author of ‘Safer,’ discusses trust, resilience and leading through crisis at Global Public Health Futures event

Dr. Raj Panjabi, physician and author of ‘Safer,’ joined Charles B. Holmes, dean of Michigan Public Health, for a conversation on building trust, countering misinformation and leading communities through crisis. Panjabi shared lessons from Ebola, COVID-19, and his White House pandemic work on turning fear into collective action.

Your chances of Alzheimer's disease vary based on where you live. Why is that?

Federally funded University of Michigan research will search for answers—and prevention possibilities—in data from 20 countries

A Michigan Public Health study led by Lindsay Kobayashi will compare memory and thinking data from older adults in 20 countries to learn why dementia risk differs worldwide and which prevention strategies matter most where.

Who will rural voters blame for harmful healthcare changes, policies this election?

U-M School of Public Health researcher asks if this midterm might be the election to redefine them

Michigan Public Health's Michael Shepherd explains how hospital closures, Medicaid changes and rural media shape who rural voters blame for healthcare losses, and why this midterm could break the pattern.

U-M studies examine what schools are doing to address cell phone use among students

U-M researchers are studying how schools across Michigan and the country are navigating student cell phone use and what policies can support learning while considering students’ safety and well being.