Empowering Rural Youth
Children living in rural communities had slightly lower well-being scores than children living in urban communities, with less access to familial and social support structures.
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Science and the Phantasies of Our Time
Science must engage with issues of import while balancing continued and rigorous engagement with long-term work of consequence.
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Brick by Brick: Vaccine Clinics in Schools
School-hosted clinics improved access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but vaccine hesitancy may have prevented families in disadvantaged neighborhoods from getting vaccinated.
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America’s Waning Life Expectancy
The gap in life expectancy between Americans and residents of other high-income countries continues to widen.
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Confronting the Challenges of Breastfeeding with a Disability
Mothers with disabilities were less likely to receive information about breastfeeding from their providers and were less likely to breastfeed their infants in the first few months postpartum than mothers without disabilities.
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Health Insurance and Infant Mortality in the U.S.
Privately insured infants had better health outcomes and a lower risk of death in their first year of life than infants insured by Medicaid.
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Reboot, Relapse, Repeat: The Harm of Anti-Pornography Forums
Online forums like NoFap can have negative impacts on participants’ mental and physical health.
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On how science can create space for innovation.
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The New School
Diversion programs are perceived by school staff as effective methods to prevent adolescent substance use, but they are not often implemented in school settings. Instead, they turn to punishment-based strategies.
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Artful Healing: The Intersection of Tattoo Artistry and Trauma-Informed Care
PHPod sits down with Kat O’Hare, a therapist and tattoo artist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss tattoo artistry as a practice of body reclamation and healing.
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Whitney S. Rice
Whitney S. Rice, assistant professor at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and director of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), speaks about her work to advance reproductive health.
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Disparities in Community-Based Naloxone Distribution in New York City
While overdose prevention programs in New York City distributed nearly 80,000 naloxone kits in a single year, some areas of the city face barriers to getting the life saving drug into the hands of people who need it most.
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