Traumatic Events and Mental Health Support
News Team member Jordyn Rosenberg explores the ways that text-based crisis-support lines meet disasters, and afterwards gather data from them
Environmental Health and Atlanta’s “Cop City”
In a new longform piece, Gabrielle Stearns of the CSHH News Team examines the deforestation planned for the "Cop City" police training center and the pollution and health damage likely to result.
Weekly Health Digest: Pandemic Struggles for People with Disabilities, Non-hormonal Birth Control for Men, Spike in Alcohol-Related Deaths, Fourth Covid Vaccine, 3D Printing
A summary of important health news from the past week. Pandemic Medical Innovations Leave Behind People With Disabilities By: Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News Inaccessibility in a world that privileges able-bodiedness remains an ongoing struggle for people with disabilities. The…
Weekly Health Digest: Organs Compatible with Any Blood Type, New C.D.C. Guidelines, Microplastics in Food, Transgender Rights in Texas, Public Health in Ukraine
A summary of important health news from the past week. Researchers Investigate How to Make Donated Organs Compatible With Any Blood Type By Meagan Drillinger, Healthline Research findings from a new study published in Science Translational Medicine suggest that it…
Weekly Health Digest: HIV Cure, Bionic Eyes, Sackler Family Settlement, Paul Farmer
A summary of important health news from the past week. A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment By Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times A woman has been cured of HIV from a procedure involving a cord blood…
Build a Baby: Ethical Implications of Gene Editing
By: Lexi Rosmarin Photo by Brano on Unsplash (rights-free) Genes decide our eye color, height, genetic predisposition to diseases, and more. We all have a specific, unique mix of all of the genes that exist in the world. The difference…
Weekly Health Digest: Covid-19 Pill, Vaccine Mandate, DEA Opioid Crackdown
A summary of important health news from the past week. Pfizer says its experimental pill reduces risk of hospitalization, death from Covid-19 By: Maggie Fox and Amanda Sealy Pfizer has created an experimental pill for preventing severe cases of Covid-19…
Health Beyond the Blog: Birth Wars
Join us for a free, online screening of Birth Wars and discussion with award-winning filmmaker Janet Jarman on October. 14th from 7-9:00 p.m. Told through deeply personal stories, Birth Wars chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision…
Health Beyond the Blog – Better Together?: Social Connectedness and Physical Health
This year, the Center for the Study of Human Health is organizing a speaker's series on the topic of "Relational Health". This series asks: what are the health impacts of social connectedness and social isolation? As we have all experience…
Stress – A Community Health Education Student Experience
By: Michael Sau and Adam Weisman Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of blog posts written by Human Health students in the Health 1,2,3,4 program’s Health 497 course — Community Health Education Strategies. To see an overview…