Month of Awareness: February
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By Isabelle Kang In honor of January being national American Heart Month, here is a quick overview of cardiovascular health, especially for women.  Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. 1 in 3 women are diagnosed with heart disease annually.  One person dies every 33 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. The heart is a vital muscular organ that pumps blood throughout our body. Coronary heart disease is the most common form of heart disease. It occurs when plaque builds up in the arteries supplying blood to your heart (called coronary ar ..read more
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Month of Awareness: January
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2M ago
In honor of January being national cervical health awareness month, here is a quick overview of cervical cancer, one of the most preventable and treatable forms of cancer.  More than 11,000 people are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. Around 4,000 people die of cervical cancer per year. Data has demonstrated that the HPV vaccine has a greater than 99% efficacy when administered to women who have not been exposed to that particular type of HPV, making it one of the most effective vaccines worldwide. Cervical cancer is defined as cancer (abnormal growth of cells) that starts in the ..read more
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Immunization Relations
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1y ago
By Rachel Iannotti In honor of August being National Immunization Awareness month, there seems to be no better time to discuss the ever-intriguing, sadly-still-debated, vital field of vaccination safety. Vaccines have played a crucial role in adaptive immunity, disease eradication, and global public health campaigns. The most well-known historical example is the smallpox vaccine, a derivative of the first-ever vaccine used against cowpox; the smallpox vaccine was first developed in 1798. Thanks to several public health initiatives and the tireless teamwork between scientists and communities, t ..read more
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World Hepatitis Day: for awareness, education, and remembrance 
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1y ago
By Rachel Iannotti Last week the US kicked off Hepatitis Awareness Week on July 26th in preparation for World Hepatitis Day which is recognized annually on July 28th. This day commemorates the birthday of Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who first discovered hepatitis B in 1967 and developed the first hep. B vaccine two years later. World Hepatitis Day is recognized by several national and international organizations, including the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hepatitis viruses encapsulate several infectious disease strains – hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E – which ..read more
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Vaccine Hesitancy in the COVID-19 Era
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3y ago
By Sapna Suresh In 1998, a then-credible British scientist named Andrew Wakefield published a seemingly groundbreaking study in the medical journal The Lancet. The article detailed the stories of several children he claimed had received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which in turn caused severe inflammation, intestinal leakage, and permitted harmful matter to enter the blood and travel to the brain. According to Wakefield, the consequence of vaccination was that the majority of these children apparently developed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Despite evidence of Wakefield’s dubious ..read more
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Yemen is on the edge of a cliff. Will COVID-19 push it over?
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3y ago
By Giancarlo Atassi, MPH; Nina Zhou, BA; and Alexandra Isaia, BS            COVID-19 continues to take a significant toll on the global community. In the United States, healthcare workers are struggling to handle 8.2 million confirmed cases and over 240,000 deaths as of November 10. Amid a public health crisis, the American system has also found itself reckoning with longstanding issues of systemic racism. With these parallel issues pulling the attention of the global community elsewhere and each nation preoccupied by its own outbreaks, many de ..read more
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Entertainment as a Tool for Health Behavior Change
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3y ago
By Sapna Suresh The radio soap opera Toma mi Mano, a 156-episode Spanish-language program broadcast across all 22 departments in Guatemala, features Ruth: a young woman who suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle. Although for a while she believed him to be completely out of her life, he returns to Guatemala and soon turns his attention to Ruth’s teenage sister. Scarred by her own past abuse, Ruth tries to speak up but is quickly dissuaded by her mother. Despite the potential backlash, Ruth’s partner supports her decision to take a stand, pushing her to stop the cycle of abuse ..read more
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Announcing our New Print Issue – Allergy
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4y ago
We are excited to announce our latest print issue, Allergy. In this issue, we explore the dynamic chronic disease of allergies from both an individual and a population-based perspective. (Click Here for Full PDF) First, Dr. Kristy Wolniak defines the term allergy. Her piece summarizes the biological interactions implicated in allergic reactions while simultaneously detailing what an allergy is NOT. An infographic accompanies her piece to further illustrate the biological interactions described. This definition sets the foundation for the remainder of the publication. Our editorial staff member ..read more
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Public Health in the News (1/1/20 – 1/11/20)
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4y ago
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief National The American Cancer Society reported that cancer death rates in United States had the largest single-year drop between 2016 and 2017.The FDA banned most fruit- and mint-flavored vaping products in an effort to reduce teen vaping.Data from the National Center for Health Statistics show that alcohol-related deaths have doubled in the last 20 years ..read more
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Forced from Home: One Year Later
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4y ago
By Sheila Burt In the fall of 2018, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) held the interactive exhibition “Forced from Home” in the Daley Plaza to educate the public on the global migration and refugee crisis and to describe the many push factors causing people around the world to flee their homes. A year later, the organization estimates that a record number of people around the world ⁠— 70.8 million people ⁠— are still forcibly displaced. Below we describe the field work of an MSF nurse and medical coordinator, Francesco Di Donna, who has a master’s degree in public healt ..read more
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