Epidemic
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IN THE NEWS: Michigan Launches Web Portal Allowing Employees, Employers to Track Coronavirus Symptoms
Sharon Kardia quoted in MLive
As employers across the state of Michigan continue to reopen their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, a newly launched tool is available to help employees and businesses track possible spread at their facilities. Read more
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Michigan Public Health Professor Joins Michigan Governor to Announce New Coronavirus Dashboard
During Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s press briefing on May 26, 2020, University of Michigan School of Public Health professor Emily Martin was invited to discuss a new way for residents of the state of Michigan to view up-to-date data on the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
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Study Seeks to Find the Relationship Between COVID-19, Social Isolation, and Mental Health in Older Adults
Q&A with Lindsay Kobayashi
Researchers from the University of Michigan are working on a study to determine the mental health impacts and well-being among older adults during the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 Coping Study, an online survey of US adults ages 55 and older, highlights the complexities and layers in which the virus impacts our society—in ways that are more than just contracting the disease. Read more
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Safe Labor, Industry, and Business during a Pandemic
Q&A with Aurora Le
As states in the US slowly reopen their economies, industry and business leaders will need to think about worker safety in new ways, most importantly how to mitigate the spread of infectious disease while still maintaining other basic safety measures specific to their facility. Read more
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IN THE NEWS: 'Micro' Aggressions, Large Lasting Effects
Arline Geronimus featured on PBS SOCAL
People pass micro-aggressions off as comedy or even just natural curiosity, but those who have experienced micro-aggressions can give you a more nuanced way of understanding how damaging these offhanded statements or actions can be. Read more
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IN THE NEWS: There Isn't a COVID-19 Vaccine Yet. But Some Are Already Skeptical About It
Abram Wagner featured in Time
The scientific community agrees that a vaccine is essential to resuming anything resembling normal life. But on a societal level, vaccines only work if they’re widely adopted. Abram Wagner, research assistant professor of Epidemiology, explains. Read more
