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Seven Ways the Pandemic Is Affecting Our Mental Health

Riana Anderson featured in Greater Good Magazine

Epidemiologists and virologists around the world are scrambling to understand and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. There is another group of researchers who are concerned about a slightly different foe: the mental health pandemic.

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Paper Analyzes Impacts of Cigarette and E-Cigarette Deal

Members of the University of Michigan and Georgetown University’s Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulation (CAsToR) recently published a new commentary analyzing the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to stop a deal between Altria, the largest US cigarette company, and the leading vaping company, Juul Labs.

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Web-Based Tool Calculates Lives Saved, Policy Implications of Tobacco Control

The Tobacco Control Policy (TCP) tool is an interactive simulation modeling application developed by Jamie Tam, assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health, Rafael Meza, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the NCI-funded Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) lung consortium.

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Will the Pandemic Finally Kill Cash?

Emily Martin featured in the Washington Post

Does the pandemic signify the oft-declared death of ­sage-colored currency? Cash now seems fraught with risk, not only because of the bills and coins but the proximity of other people involved in each transaction. Health experts believe these concerns are overblown, but anxiety has a way of compounding like interest.

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Testing, Treatment, And The Latest On A Vaccine To Prevent COVID-19

Emily Martin featured on WEMU

WEMU's Lisa Barry talks with University of Michigan associate professor of epidemiology from the School of Public Health Emily Toth Martin about the latest on COVID-19 testing, possible new treatments, and a vaccine to prevent it from infecting someone.