COVID-19 Archives

03.03.2022 covid overdose map

A Surge in Overdose Deaths During Covid-19

Almost all states experienced increased rates of fatal drug overdose from 2019 to 2020.

Guest Authors Kevin Griffith, Samantha G. Auty

02.21.2022 subway car in empty station

Working from Home? Commuting Beyond Covid-19

Covid-19 and the resulting policy responses negatively impacted public transit ridership in 94 metropolitan areas.

Guest Authors Kenneth B. Medlock, III, Ted Temzelides, Shih Yu (Elsie) Hung

02.15.2022 covid knocking dominoes over

Covid-19's Wide Ranging Impacts

Public Health – Seattle & King County worked with partners to access new, timely data to monitor Covid-19 indicators for better decision-making.

Guest Authors Abigail Sekar, Eva Wong, Amy Laurent

12.09.2021 Kevin Churchwell

Kevin Churchwell

Kevin Churchwell, MD, president and CEO of Boston Children's Hospital, talks with PHP about why it's so important to focus on children's health.

Fellow Rubina Veerakone

12.03.2021 Illustration of person in hospital bed

Health Equity

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19 Testing and Outcomes

Covid-19 disease, hospitalization and death disparities loom large among Latinos in a California study.

Guest Authors Mireille Jacobson, Tom Y. Chang, Manisha Shah, Rajiv Pramanik, Samir B. Shah

11.24.2021 person on pier in fog

Life After Loss

The pandemic has underscored disenfranchised grief, or grief that is not “openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned.”

Fellow Rubina Veerakone

11.12.2021 Peter Mirandi

Health Equity

Peter Mirandi

Peter Mirandi has more than 30 years of local public health experience in several Massachusetts communities.

Editor Teresa Wood Kett

11.11.2021 M Daniele Fallin

M. Daniele Fallin

M. Daniele Fallin, PhD, is the chair of the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies how environments, behavior and genetic variation contribute to the risk of psychiatric disease.

Fellow Maya Thirkill

10.29.2021 map

Health Equity

Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health During Covid-19

Federal immigration policies intersected with national Covid-19 prevention and response efforts in 2020 at the policy, health system, and individual patient level.

Guest Authors Jessica Hill, Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Paul McDaniel

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