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Pursuing a healthier, more equitable world for all, Michigan Public Health researchers are accompanying vulnerable individuals and communities on our way to designing a world that is a good deal healthier for everyone in it.
Patel and a team of collaborators will conduct a 5-year study to evaluate e-health tools for those living with diabetes and experiencing health-related financial burdens and unaddressed social determinants of health.
Poverty Solutions and Detroit URC grant-funded projects are helping to address housing stability, homelessness, energy poverty and more in Detroit, across Michigan, and throughout the country.
No one looks forward to that first colonoscopy, but this glimpse into the gut is one of the most powerful existing weapons against colon cancer. Yet current protocol for when to start checking for the disease may be too late for many men and may put many women through an expensive and unnecessary ordeal, according to a new study led by Jihyoun Jeon in the Department of Epidemiology.
More than 20 percent of transgender women are currently living with HIV, and transgender women are nearly 50 times more likely to contract HIV than cisgender individuals. A research team led by Kristi Gamarel, assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, is working to address this health inequity.
Many students at Michigan Public Health are the first in their family to attend college. Across the school, these students model the resilience and dedication needed to approach some of public health’s biggest challenges.