Active cases of COVID-19 in Michigan’s prisons have fallen since the novel coronavirus tore through the Department of Corrections in the spring and infected 10% of the incarcerated population. But experts, staff and prisoners say now is not a time for complacency. Read more
Amy Schulz, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, was among four University of Michigan faculty members to be awarded a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship, effective August 31, 2020. Read more
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. Read more
We’re all wondering when we can return to work, see friends and family, and get back to some sense of normal. Meanwhile, we might notice that a planned temporary hospital wasn’t built or that some data seems to show a reduction in the spread of coronavirus. What do we do with emerging shades of gray in a situation that seemed so black and white not too long ago? Read more
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. Read more
Paul Fleming is an assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health with deep ties to Detroit. He explains the social and structural factors in place in Detroit that have contributed to it becoming one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots. Read more