Hafsa Usman, MPH '25, honors her great-grandmother's legacy of advocacy and education in her student speaker address at the 2025 Scholarship and Awards Dinner, connecting family stories to the mission of public health.
Through Blueprints for Pangaea, University of Michigan students rescue millions in medical supplies from landfills, demonstrating how reducing healthcare waste can lower costs, improve global health equity, and reduce environmental impact.
In 2023, the US Surgeon General issued a national health advisory on a loneliness epidemic in the US. Michigan Public Health professor Lindsay Kobayashi explains the long-term health consequences of loneliness, what causes it, and how we can heal through community-level interventions.
In this article from The Conversation, Michigan Public Health researchers highlight the reality of precarious work and exploitative labor practices for Michigan’s farmworkers. Researchers Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos and Alexis Handal lead the Michigan Farmworker Project, an academic collaboration with community and state organizations to increase understanding of the social, labor and housing situation of farmworkers in the state.
University of Michigan student Darius Moore details a recent trip to Grenada with the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Bachelor's student Sahana Raja spent her summer at a global public health internship in Tamil Nadu, India, the region where her parents were born. She describes learning about healthcare and poverty, maternal health, and a calling to serve.