Health Equity

Michigan Farmworker Project seeks to improve social and environmental health for marginalized population

Q&A with Alexis Handal and Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios

Led by University of Michigan School of Public Health social epidemiologists Alexis Handal and Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios, the Michigan Farmworker Project (MFP) is a community-based participatory research initiative aimed at improving the social and environmental health of Michigan’s farmworker population, who play a critical role in the state’s food supply chain. Handal and Iglesias-Rios discuss their work.

Long COVID: Women, Hispanics and lower-income Michiganders hit hardest

New MI CReSS Report

Long COVID was more prevalent among women, Hispanics and those with lower incomes, according to the most recent Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study report.

Exposure to chemicals increased in pregnant women in the last decade, study suggests

New research from John Meeker

Pregnant women's exposures to chemicals increased considerably in the last decade, according to a recently published study co-authored by Michigan Public Health professor John Meeker.

Michigan Public Health joins forces with leading health organizations in $25M Bank of America-funded initiative to improve health outcomes in communities of color

The University of Michigan School of Public Health is collaborating with the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Cancer Society on a Bank of America-funded program to advance health for Black, Latino/Hispanic, Asian, and Indigenous communities.

Collaboration Between Leading Health Organizations Aims to Improve Health Outcomes in Communities of Color

Bank of America, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association®, the American Cancer Society and the University of Michigan School of Public Health, announced the launch of a signature health equity initiative, an impact-driven program to advance healthy outcomes for under-resourced communities.

For Hispanic Michiganders, COVID-19 caused worse symptoms, longer hospital stays

New research from Luis Zavala Arciniega

Hispanic Michiganders were more likely than white Michiganders to suffer severe COVID-19 symptoms, have longer hospital stays and experience increased social stressors—being unable to pay rent, buy food or arrange child care, according to a new University of Michigan study.