Health Behavior and Health Education professor Arline Geronimus has been selected as the 2021 James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship. The award recognizes a U-M senior faculty member who has made important contributions to understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, scholarship and creative endeavors.
Sebastian Zöllner, professor of Biostatistics at the U-M School of Public Health and of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine, will become Co-Director of the Precision Health initiative at the University of Michigan.
University of Michigan researchers surveying wastewater systems for SARS-COV-2 will be able to increase testing sites and continue monitoring until 2023 after receiving more than $5 million from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Belinda Needham, associate professor of Epidemiology, has been named chair of the department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Two University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers have been selected as inaugural recipients of a new annual award from the University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative.
Black parents' experiences of racial discrimination can negatively affect their children's psychological outcomes—but talking about these experiences and improving racial socialization competency could help prevent these negative outcomes, according to a new study by a University of Michigan researcher.