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.
Institutional Member Highlight: UCLA’s Center for Health Advancement
We’re honored to have the Center for Health Advancement at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health as an institutional member. Find out more about their work.
On Methods to Understand Urban Transformations: Revitalization, Gentrification, and Health Inequity
Urban transformations are complex. How can we best study their effects on the health of populations?
Population Health News Roundup: January
Each month, we curate the top population health news. This month, virtual reality takes a role in injury prevention and breast feeding, hearing loss plays a role in other health risks, Washington State’s environmental health risks are mapped, indigenous teachings seek to reduce disparities, and much more..
Conference Report: Debt and Health Disparities in the U.S.
Should debt be a more central variable in health disparities work? Find out in this conference report from Justin Denney.
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.
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