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Conference Report: What Is It Good For? Using Epigenetics to Understand Health Disparities
Can social epigenomics help us understand health disparities? In this report from our 2018 conference, Belinda Needham shares new studies underway to answer this question.
Conference Report: Using Evidence to Inform Immigration Policy
Research on the relationship between immigration policy and population health, well-being, and equity impacts is important and relevant, according to our 2018 Conference panel. Read more in this conference report from Erin Hagan.
Our Top Ten Blog Posts from 2018
Our top ten blog posts from 2018 include discussions on opioids, twitter, racism, the black death, e-mental health, and more.
Population Health News Roundup: December
Bananas in bodegas, reducing accidents via an app and a car ban, guns as contagions, high-risk tobacco in low-income communities, and more in our monthly population health news roundup.
Conference Report: Is the Microbiome a New Era of Population Health?
Will the microbiome usher in a new era of “poop-ulation health?” Read this conference report from Jennifer Dowd.
Conference Report: Politics, Population Health, and (a Lack of) Progress
What’s holding back our progress in population and public health? First we need a healthy democracy and attention to state-level policies that create disparities. David Warner filed this report from our October 2018 Population Health Conference.
Stephen Bezruchka Talks Inequality, Structural Violence, and the Future of Population Health
None of us are immune to the harm from structural violence and the “highly toxic gas of inequality.” Read more in our interview with Stephen Bezruchka in this special blog post.
Dashboard Update: Some Worrying Trends on Policy and Population Health
Fred Zimmerman, IAPHS 2019 President-Elect, takes a look at his dashboard on policy and population health, and sees some worrying trends.
Population Health News Roundup: November
Each month, we curate the top news in population health. This month, how black churches support mental health, an update on the rural hospital crisis, loneliness and dementia, technology meets vaccination tracking in Tanzania, poor dental care and seniors, and much more.
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