Health 1,2,3,4
The four-course series aims to provide students with strategies and resources to play an active role in their own health, while also equipping them with the skills to promote the health of their peers.
Health and the Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics showed us that shared health events–pandemics and their aftermath–affect the health of elite athletes in unpredictable ways.
Health Beyond the Blog: Why It Costs $15,000 to Freeze Your Eggs
A new documentary explores the ethical and financial implications of oocyte preservation – egg freezing.
Mindfulness in Schools: Improving Children’s Mental Health and Learning
Mindfulness education can reduce stress and aid learning in middle and high schools, and may also help lessen the psychological impact of Covid – but it can be costly to implement.
Health Beyond the Blog: A rough week for mask mandates
Vix's podcast "Today, Explained" takes up the changes to federal mask policies.
Down Syndrome: The Effects of an Extra 21st Chromosome
The chromosomal defect known as Down syndrome may have made people who carry it more vulnerable to the worst effects of Covid-19.
Health Beyond the Blog: Period. End of Sentence
In the documentary "Period. End of Sentence," women in a rural Indian village combat menstruation stigma by learning to make and distribute their own sanitary pads, against male opposition.
Health Beyond The Blog: NATAL, the podcast
Photo by Tembinkosi Sikupela on Unsplash (rights-free) The racial disparities in pregnancy and birthing experiences in the US is an urgent and important issue, one that needs to be explored beyond the statistics and numbers. NATAL, a narrative podcast about…
Atlanta: “The Public Health Capital of The World”
Thanks to the presence of the CDC and other agencies, Atlanta is the capital of public health in America – but that position obscures how racism and inequality affected the evolution of public health.
Weekly Health Digest: Abortion Access, CDC Institutional Review, The Loss of a Legend, High C-Section Rates in the South
A summary of health news from this past week. Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash (rights-free) As states move to restrict abortion access, neighboring states prepare for surges in demand By: Tasnim Ahmed, CNN Many Republican-led states have recently passed…