The IAPHS Blog is a virtual community that keeps population health professionals connected and up to date on the latest population health news, policy, controversies, and relevant research from multiple fields.
What Can We Do About Medical Mistrust Harming Americans’ Health?
Trust decay is harming Americans’ health. What can be done?
Vote for Board and Officers for 2020
Congratulations to our newly selected candidates for several officer and board positions. Members-only voting begins June 1.
Population Health News Roundup: April
Discrimination is linked to sleep, NASA tool predicts malaria outbreaks, a texting ban may mean fewer auto injuries, dirty air linked to mental illness (and where the air is the dirtiest), yersenia pestis lives, and more in our monthly population health news roundup.
Author Talk: Causation in Population Health Informatics & Data Science
Dammann and Smart talk with us about their new book, which aims to move toward a framework for causal explanations in population health informatics and analytics.
It Takes a Village: Claremont Healthy Village Initiative Builds Body, Mind, and Spirit
How one Bronx community is removing barriers and building body, mind, and spirit.
Why Anti-Immigrant Policies Matter for Population Health
Beyond debates about building the wall, anti-immigrant policies are harming the health of entire communities. Read more in this op-ed from Dr. Tiffany Joseph and Dr. Helen Marrow.
Crossroads Clientcare Longitudinal Database: Community-Engaged Data Collection for Population Health
How a longitudinal database, community partnerships, and a hub-and-spokes food bank program are forging a unique path to data collection.
Institutional Member Spotlight: Duke University’s Department of Population Health Sciences
Get to know Duke University’s Department of Population Health Sciences, our Institutional Member of the Month, and find out about their summer institute.
Population Health News Roundup: March
This month we introduce a new feature: IAPHS members in the news, plus our usual roundup of population health news highlights in tech, global health, programs & policy, disparities, and place.
Engaging Underserved Populations for Chronic Disease Screening and Prevention in Non-Healthcare Settings
How and where Langone population health scientists are connecting with people who need help—and why it’s working.
HAVE AN IDEA FOR A BLOG POST?
We want to hear about it! Read our contributor submission guidelines here and then email us at: altmanc@health.missouri.edu.
IAPHS Members: Share your news, accomplishments or publications with us
Click Here!