Honk honk! Can noise cameras reduce 'potentially fatal' sound pollution?
Rick Neitzel quoted in The Guardian
As noise detectors are installed in a rich neighborhood of Manhattan, experts worry they will punish people of color.
Urban Health
Michigan Public Health launches speaker series The Exchange: Conversations with distinguished scholars
This fall, Michigan Public Health will offer a new opportunity to gather in our pursuit of a healthier, more equitable world for all with the launch of a new speaker series: “The Exchange: Conversations with distinguished scholars.”
Project HEARD Empowers Community Organizations for Effective Policy Change
The project utilizes community-academic partnerships to work toward defined policy goals set forth using a community-based participatory approach.
Project HEARD (Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit), a Detroit URC policy initiative co-led by Michigan Public Health faculty and community partners, supports community-led efforts to advance health equity in Detroit and beyond.
Air pollution continues to be focus of community coalition to promote a healthy environment in Detroit
People living and working in Detroit are exposed to elevated levels of a variety of air pollutants. Six years after releasing a Public Health Action Plan, work is moving forward on community initiatives to expand responses to air pollution in Detroit.
Redlined yesterday, unhealthy today: The link between historic housing discrimination, poor health
Q&A with Roshanak Mehdipanah and Amy Schulz
Michigan Public Health researchers explain their recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health and why understanding the lingering harm of redlining is necessary to repairing the damage of discriminatory policies.
New Michigan Public Health-led initiative builds health equity through housing
Q&A with Roshanak Mehdipanah
We spoke with Roshanak Mehdipanah, an associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, to learn more about a new initiative she is leading called Housing Solutions for Health Equity.