This summer, School of Public Health representatives visited research collaborators in Ethiopia and Kenya to learn more about their public health challenges and to discuss new avenues for future partnerships.
Smoking-related lung cancer rates are expected to drop dramatically over the next 50 years, but lung cancer will continue to be a significant health problem in the United States, according to new research led by Jihyoun Jeon and Rafael Meza in the Department of Epidemiology.
Public health research often requires working across cultural and national borders to serve vulnerable populations around the world. How can we prepare for that work and demonstrate cultural understanding at its best?
No one looks forward to that first colonoscopy, but this glimpse into the gut is one of the most powerful existing weapons against colon cancer. Yet current protocol for when to start checking for the disease may be too late for many men and may put many women through an expensive and unnecessary ordeal, according to a new study led by Jihyoun Jeon in the Department of Epidemiology.
The School of Public Health will house a new, multi-institutional center focusing on modeling and predicting the impact of tobacco regulation, funded with an $18 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
Michigan Public Health scientists play a key role in helping determine which flu vaccines are most effective. The Detroit Free Press interviewed Emily Martin, assistant professor of Epidemiology, about the work done here and what people need to know about the flu vaccine.