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Rising Temperatures Increase Dengue Risk in the U.S.

Fellow Jude Sleiman

Socioeconomic Disparities and Antimicrobial Resistance

Guest Author Lauren Cooper

To Close or Not to Close

Fellow Heather Sherr

Vaccine Gaps in Immigrant Communities

Fellow Dani Weissert

Becoming a Dad Too Soon May Be Bad for the Heart

Fellow Jude Sleiman

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04.29.2020 a model of a human jaw

Oral Health is Public Health

The steady increase in HPV-related oral cancer reinforces the need for widespread HPV vaccination to help combat this trend.

Guest Author Disha Thakkar

04.16.2020 a scale with measuring tape

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Chronic Disease

Stressing Risks for Obesity

Multiple types of stressors may be risk factors for obesity, and cumulative exposure to these stressors may contribute to obesity and obesity disparities.

Guest Author Adolfo Cuevas

04.10.2020 a man smiling at the camera

Daniel E. Dawes

Daniel E. Dawes underscores how the mechanics of politics and policies shape our response to Covid-19 and how the pandemic changed his work.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

Editor Nicholas Diamond

03.16.2020 a graph of age and age

Tagging Tuberculosis

Lapses in testing guidelines undermine efforts to completely eliminate tuberculosis in the country despite decline in incidence and prevalence.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

03.13.2020 a close-up of several medical masks

Counting Coronavirus

Dr. David Hamer and Dr. Wendy Heiger-Bernays, who have been closely tracking Covid-19, trace the spread from Wuhan, China to many other parts of the world.

Fellow Gray Babbs

03.11.2020 a graph of cases with numbers and letters

Messaging and Measles

In response to pressure to increase transparency, Facebook launched Ad Library, allowing a comparison of trends in pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine messaging.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

02.12.2020 a cross against a pink sky

Religion and Our Health

Among underserved populations, potential positive effects of attending religious services on overall mortality may be undermined by deprivation and poverty.

Fellow Julia Garcia

01.30.2020 a group of buttons with logos on them

After ALS Went Viral

After it went viral, the Ice Bucket Challenge raised more than $200 million in just eight weeks from donors across the world, but then what happened?

Fellow Julia Garcia

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