Tag: public-health

Exposure to hydraulic fracturing fluid in drinking water has been shown to increase the risk of respiratory problems, premature births, congenital heart...

Well-intentioned “citizen scientists” developing homemade COVID-19 vaccines may believe they’re inoculating themselves against the ongoing pandemic, but the practice of self-experimentation with...

While access to nature is an established social determinant of health with clear benefits to physical, mental, and social health, it does...

As the U.S. economy cautiously reopens in the wake of COVID-19, artists, architects and urban planners at the University of Michigan whose...

A long-brewing crisis of housing instability in the U.S. threatens to mar the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic by...

When the coronavirus pandemic first emerged, public health officials told the world to watch out for its telltale symptoms: fever, dry cough...

The doctoral candidate in anthropology, studies emerging disease preparedness.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are providing local public health officials across Wisconsin with zip...

Even before the pandemic, campus initiatives like NatureRx@Penn and the 30x30 Challenge encouraged time outside. These efforts are continuing, now that restorative...

In a Q&A, School of Social Policy & Practice researcher Susan B. Sorenson describes new challenges surrounding intimate partner violence and the...