Students
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App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
New research from Michigan Public Health
The University of Michigan’s OncCOVID app draws on global cancer and coronavirus data to create an individualized mortality risk assessment for receiving immediate versus delayed cancer treatment. Read more
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University of Michigan School of Public Health Launches Online Master of Science Degree
The University of Michigan School of Public Health has announced a new online Master of Science (MS) degree in Population and Health Sciences, expanding its online degree offerings to learners across the globe. Read more
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Public Health Student Part of Winning Team at Campus-wide Entrepreneur Competition
Michigan Public Health student Anthony Dang and his team earned the top prize at the 2020 Innovation in Action competition. The four-person team created Heard, an app designed to digitally connect individuals with chronic illness to peer support. Read more
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Modeling the Impact of Lockdown Measures and Coronavirus Response in India
Q&A with Rupam Bhattacharyya
Rupam Bhattacharyya, a doctoral student at Michigan Public Health, is part of a team of researchers that, as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded around the world, used standard epidemiologic models to do a situational assessment of the crisis in India—providing real-time data for authorities to assist leadership in addressing this global pandemic. Read more
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For Many Female Athletes, Bone Stress and Missing Period Is the Norm
Q&A with Traci Carson and Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez
The culture of running promotes a body weight and size ideal that is unhealthy among elite female collegiate distance runners, according to preliminary findings from a series of interviews by University of Michigan researchers. Read more
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IN THE NEWS: Group Analyzing U-M Food's Role in Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Andy Jones featured in The University Record
Although harnessing renewable energy or enabling electric-vehicle transportation may be more visible efforts toward carbon neutrality, another area crucial to any push toward climate action is one that U-M students, staff and faculty encounter regularly: food. Read more
