Cancer

Sugar substitute aspartame on a spoon.

Aspartame and cancer: A toxicologist's take

Q&A with Jackie Goodrich

Jackie Goodrich, research associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, discusses the World Health Organization's recent decision to classify the artificial sweetener as possibly carcinogenic while also maintaining the current recommendation of safe daily intake.

Bhramar Mukherjee and Jeremy Taylor.

Two Michigan Public Health faculty receive American Statistical Association awards

Bhramar Mukherjee and Jeremy Taylor of Michigan Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics received prestigious awards from the American Statistical Association. Mukherjee received the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society and Taylor the Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award.

Three male older adults sit together.

Promoting healthy memory aging in older cancer survivors

Postdoctoral fellow Ashly Westrick receives grant from National Institute on Aging

Postdoctoral fellow Ashly Westrick discusses her epidemiological research on health inequalities in cancer outcomes. Westrick was recently awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging to examine memory aging in older cancer survivors in the US and England.