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Health Care Integration: A Personal Perspective

After her husband’s experience with fragmented health care, MHA student Audrey Workman turned her focus on finding potential solutions.

A Sustained Public-Health Approach Can Help Stem the Tide of Gun Deaths

Dean John Finnegan wrote in a recent MinnPost editorial that the time is ripe for a public-health-based social and cultural movement to stem the tide of gun deaths.

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Linking Structural Racism and Health

Rachel Hardeman works to bring new awareness to a deeply rooted problem.

Investigating Food Outbreaks

School of Public Health students investigate foodborne outbreaks through Team D, a group in the Minnesota Department of Health’s Foodborne Diseases Unit.

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Research News

Weather Alerts Should Warn People with Specific Health Conditions
by Charlie Plain on May 15, 2018 at 9:24 pm
Research from PhD student Yang Liu recommends that temperature advisories include information about the potential harm to people with cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal diseases. […]
Bonner Awarded Fogarty Fellowship to Study Vaccination in Uganda
by Charlie Plain on May 8, 2018 at 6:21 pm
PhD student Kimberly Bonner plans to research how health students weigh factors in vaccination decision-making, and barriers to HPV vaccination for adolescent girls who have dropped out of school. […]
Playing Video “Exergames” May Help Girls Be More Active
by Charlie Plain on May 8, 2018 at 6:09 pm
A study using Project EAT data shows girls who play physical activity video games tend to spend higher amounts of time engaging in vigorous activity overall. […]
Plastic Particles Common in Tap Water, Beer, and Salt
by Charlie Plain on May 2, 2018 at 6:52 pm
A study by recent graduate Mary Kosuth ('17) found that 81 percent of tap water samples — and all tested brands of salt and beer — contained microplastic particles. […]