How to Address the Coronavirus's Outsized Toll on People of Color
Enrique Neblett featured in Nature
US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities — and to defeating the pandemic overall.
Health Equity
Surviving the Coronavirus While Black: Pandemic's Heavy Toll on African American Mental Health
Q&A with Riana Anderson
Riana Anderson, assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education discusses how COVID-19 and recent racially charged events are affecting the mental health of African Americans during this time.
Coronavirus: Why Hispanics Are at Higher Risk to Suffer Health, Economic Consequences
Q&A with Paul Fleming and William Lopez
US Hispanics are more likely than their white white counterparts to be affected by coronavirus independently of their immigration status. Two University of Michigan School of Public Health experts explain why, and offer some solutions the federal government could use to mitigate these negative consequences.
American Heart Association Grant Launches New Wearable Health Technology Research Center at University of Michigan
The Wearables In Reducing Risk and Enhancing Daily Lifestyle Center (WIRED-L) aims to investigate how mobile health (mHealth) technology, such as smartwatches and smartphones, can be used to study and improve health behaviors among hypertensive populations. Bhramar Mukherjee, Chair and professor of Biostatistics, serves as co-investigator of the center.
Public Health Surveillance: Immunity, Testing, and Contact Tracing
Q&A with Abram Wagner
Long before we could sequence a virus’s genome in a matter of weeks, we used public health tactics like contact tracing to sort out the movement of a disease in a population. Contact tracing is one of the “traditional” tools of epidemiologists. Today, we have more public health surveillance tools at our disposal, and we’ll need both the old and the new to bring COVID-19 under control.
Matthew Boulton Appointed Member of Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities
Matthew Boulton, senior associate dean for Global Public Health and professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, has been appointed to the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities, which will study racial disparities in the impact of COVID-19 and recommend actions to address the disparities.