Epidemiology

Headshot of Kelly Bakulski and Xiang Zhou

Kelly Bakulski and Xiang Zhou receive 2024 MBioFar Awards

The award recognizes mid-career faculty members and their exceptional contributions in the biosciences

The University of Michigan’s Biosciences Initiative has selected five accomplished scientists as the 2024 recipients of the Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award, two of whom are faculty of Michigan Public Health.

Lonely

Multiple periods of loneliness may add up to higher mortality risk

New research from Xuexin Yu and Lindsay Kobayashi

Working from well-established research on the detrimental health effects of loneliness, University of Michigan researchers set out to study whether feeling lonely at multiple times through the years leads to more serious illness and higher mortality risk in mid to later life.