IAPHS Member News & Highlights: August 2024

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Congratulations

Darrell Hudson is returning to the University of Michigan School of Public Health as the chair of the Department of Health Behavior & Health Education. (July 18, 2024)

Jennifer Karas Montez, Bettina Beech, William Story, and Alicia Riley are our new IAPHS Board members for 2025. Read more about them here.

Ililya Gutin has joined the Syracuse University Lerner Center as a research affiliate.

Shannon Monnat and Jennifer Karas Montez were each awarded 5-year, $1.9 million grants from the National Institute on Aging to co-lead research networks. Monnat is a co-principal investigator on the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA). Montez is a co-principal investigator and Monnat is a co-investigator on the Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities. (Syracuse University Lerner Center, August 29, 2024)

Publications

Rebecca Selove penned an article, “African American Faith Communities: Foundations for Mental Wellness,” in the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Blog, Insights 2024. Neely Williams and Omaran D. Lee were co-authors. (July 31, 2024)

Steven Woolf in AJPH: “Excess death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic varied considerably across the US states and were associated with partisan representation in state government, although the influence of confounding variables cannot be excluded.” (August 7, 2024)

Sandro Galea in medRxiv: “Epigenome-wide association studies identify novel DNA methylation sites associated with PTSD: A meta-analysis of 23 military and civilian cohorts.” (preprint, July 15, 2024)

Sandro Galea in the American Journal of Epidemiology: Lower incomes, younger age, and COVID-19 were risk factors for generalized anxiety disorder among low-resourced individuals. (August 9, 2024)

Emma Zang in the Journal of Family Issues: “Among parents employed pre-pandemic and mothers of young children who had a job exit during COVID-19, receiving informal childcare was associated with longer work hours in December 2020.” (June 1, 2024)

News & Highlights

Rita Hamad and team released a new nationwide database of US COVID-19 County Policies (UCCP). This database is publicly available for research and policy. (June 11, 2024)

Shannon Monnat and Jennifer Karas Montez are featured in an article on Syracuse University Stories. The article talks about their work as co-directors of the Policy, Place, and Population Health (P3H) Lab at Syracuse. (July 29, 2024)