Innovation

Statewide Dementia Coalition Co-Chaired By Scott Roberts Issues New Roadmap to Make Michigan 'Dementia Capable'

Scott Roberts, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has been appointed co-chair of the Michigan Dementia Coalition (MDC). The MDC is a statewide group of >120 individuals from approximately 65 organizations that works to identify opportunities to improve quality of life for Michigan residents with dementia and their families.

Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with New Knowledge: U-M Teams Up with Harvard, National Academy of Medicine

With 130 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses, and 2 million suffering from disorders related to prescription and non-prescription opioids, the University of Michigan is ramping up efforts to make an impact on the opioid epidemic through the research and expertise of its faculty and their teams.

Degrees of Growth: Expanding Access to Michigan Public Health's Educational and Professional Resources

Sharon L. R. Kardia

At the leading edge of online education, new technologies now enable close, high-touch interactions that close long-distance gaps and demonstrably improve learning outcomes That’s great news for thousands of learners wanting access to the fully rounded, rigorous professional training Michigan Public Health provides.

IN THE NEWS: Massive NIH-Industry Project Opens Portals to Target Validation

New Research from Michael Boehnke

Five years in, the US$360 million Accelerating Medicines Partnership is yielding tools to speed up drug discovery for rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, diabetes, Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease.

Departments Collaborate on Panel Discussing Future Climate Change and Health

Collaboration and Leadership from Trish Koman and Dean Bowman

The Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease recently sponsored its annual “Climate Change and Health: What the Science Says and What We Can Do” forum in collaboration with the Environmental Health Sciences department of the School of Public Health and the School for Environment and Sustainability of the University of Michigan.

University of Michigan Launches New Projects to Fight Poverty

On any given day across Michigan nearly 100 homeowners or renters could be evicted—a rate almost one-and-a-half times the national average. That is a problem one of nine new projects funded by Poverty Solutions and with support from the Detroit Urban Research Center aims to tackle in 2019.