Advocacy

Conversation

Let's Continue the Conversation about Mental Health and Suicide

Traci Carson

The recent deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have sparked media and public dialogue about mental health and suicide. PhD Candidate Traci Carson explores how continuing the conversation is vital to building and improving mental health support and resources.

Backyard Statistics

Working in Everyone's Backyard: Statistics in the Community

Stephen Salerno

Statistics in the Community is a community outreach organization offering the expertise of statistics graduate students—free of charge—to nonprofit organizations. They design studies, develop better data collection instruments, and analyze data for public good.

Building Trust in Public Health

Building Trust in Public Health

Karen Burke

After spending Thanksgiving quarantined due to a suspected case of the measles, one student seriously reconsidered her career path in epidemiology. Read about her experience and how it relates to the issue of trust in public health.

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Immigration Raids May Contribute to PTSD Symptoms

William Lopez

Recent findings published in the Journal of Traumatology indicate that immigration raids are highly traumatic for those involved, and individuals exposed to such raids may meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD or express complex PTSD symptoms.