Denise Anthony Appointed Director of Health Informatics
Denise Anthony, professor of Health Management and Policy, has been appointed the director of the Health Informatics program at the University of Michigan.
Faculty,Health Behavior and Health Equity
Surveillance Testing: Gathering the Data on COVID-19
Q&A with Emily Martin
Emily Martin is an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and an expert in viral respiratory illnesses. She explains what surveillance testing is and how it can help us in the process of slowing the spread of this virus.
School Closures Have Long-Term Implications for Students' Health
Q&A with Julia Wolfson and Roshanak Mehdipanah
Experts at the University of Michigan School of Public Health discuss the impact of closing schools until the end of the year, including how this could exacerbate existing health and housing disparities.
How Do Hospitals Prepare for a Pandemic?
Q&A with David Hutton
Even when we’re not facing a global pandemic, influxes in patients happen fairly regularly and there’s a lot hospitals have already been doing to prepare. What makes this situation different and how are hospitals responding? Health Management and Policy professor David Hutton explains.
Which Populations Are Most Vulnerable to the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Q&A with Sharon Kardia and Jon Zelner
For vulnerable populations—the elderly, those with chronic illness and mental health issues, and those without the means to work from home or access affordable health care—measures we've undertaken to slow the spread of coronavirus can have life-threatening consequences. To better understand how the virus will impact the most vulnerable, we spoke with University of Michigan School of Public Health epidemiologists Sharon Kardia and Jon Zelner.
Coronavirus Modeling, Impact on India's Pandemic Response
Q&A with Bhramar Mukherjee
Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor and chair of biostatistics at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, leads a team of researchers that, as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded around the world, used standard epidemiologic models to do a situational assessment of the crisis in India—providing real-time data for authorities to assist leadership in addressing this global pandemic.