How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
Enrique Neblett quoted in ProPublica
Health Behavior and Health Education professor Enrique Neblett discusses the impact that race can have on health outcomes.
Health Behavior and Health Equity
Take the Mic Contest Taps Creativity to Fight COVID-19
The "Take the Mic" contest is part of a series of community-engaged efforts funded by a nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address misinformation and mistrust around COVID-19, vaccine trials and the vaccine.
Concern about Loved Ones Might Motivate People to Mask Up, Get Vaccine
New study from Ken Resnicow
A new study finds that appealing to people's concerns for their loved ones could overcome this resistance. And it may have implications for encouraging people to get the new vaccine.
How Chaplains Are Helping People Deal with Existential Crises during a Pandemic
New Study from Geila Rajaee
The majority of Americans say they are aware of chaplains and desire their services, yet few report previous experience with them in health care, according to a University of Michigan study. Lead author Geila Rajaee, a doctoral candidate at the U-M School of Public Health, discusses how chaplaincy is perceived in the U.S., and how that might be changing during the pandemic.
Undergraduate Students Discuss Impacts of COVID-19 on Social Determinants of Health
Social determinants of health are key influences in shaping health outcomes. With this in mind, a group of six undergraduate students from the University of Michigan School of Public Health came together to publish a paper on how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact various social determinants of health as we look toward the future and the virus continues to spread.
Genetic Testing: Employee Perk or Privacy Hazard?
New research from Scott Roberts
Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine will lead an interdisciplinary, multi-institution study of the ethical, legal and social implications of workplace genomic testing in the United States.