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The Wearables In Reducing Risk and Enhancing Daily Lifestyle Center (WIRED-L) aims to investigate how mobile health (mHealth) technology, such as smartwatches and smartphones, can be used to study and improve health behaviors among hypertensive populations. Bhramar Mukherjee, Chair and professor of Biostatistics, serves as co-investigator of the center.
Long before we could sequence a virus’s genome in a matter of weeks, we used public health tactics like contact tracing to sort out the movement of a disease in a population. Contact tracing is one of the “traditional” tools of epidemiologists. Today, we have more public health surveillance tools at our disposal, and we’ll need both the old and the new to bring COVID-19 under control.
Matthew Boulton, senior associate dean for Global Public Health and professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, has been appointed to the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities, which will study racial disparities in the impact of COVID-19 and recommend actions to address the disparities.
Paul Fleming is an assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health with deep ties to Detroit. He explains the social and structural factors in place in Detroit that have contributed to it becoming one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots.
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.
Humans produce a lot of data, and it seems the current epidemic crisis has accelerated our production of and engagement with numbers, graphs, and maps. But we can learn a lot from all the statistics, especially if we know how to digest and interpret it all. Demography expert Neil Mehta shares his thoughts on how to follow and understand the coronavirus outbreak in a meaningful way.