The Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) at the School of Public Health works with numerous partners to address stress in farmers, farm workers, and their families.
Martha Coventry
School of Public Health and Minnesota partners awarded $4 million grant to improve patient care
The program will train the next generation of researchers to work with clinicians, administrators, and patients in health care settings.
NIH Gives $6.5M to Neumark-Sztainer to Study Eating and Weight Issues in Young People
The NIH awarded Professor Dianne Neumark-Sztainer a coveted Outstanding Investigator Award to study eating and weight-related problems in adolescents and young adults from low-income and ethnic/racial minority groups in the United States.
Tackling a Persistent Pollutant
Associate Professor Matt Simcik developed a process to keep hazardous PFCs — now called PFAS (perfluoroalkyl substances) — from traveling through aquifers to drinking water sources and ecosystems.
Rural Maternity Care Losses Lead to Childbirth Risks
Research from Associate Professor Katy Kozhimannil found that families living in non-urban-adjacent rural counties faced increased risk of out-of-hospital birth, birth in a hospital that does not provide obstetric care, and preterm birth, after losing hospital-based obstetric services.
SPH at the 2017 March for Science
Reconsidering the MPH core: educating next generation public health professionals
School of Public Health leadership asks for comments on MPH core curriculum changes.
Putting Out the Fire: SPH Takes on the Ebola Epidemic
A Good Friend of SPH: Bernard Queneau, 1912–2014
Uninsured Minnesotans number falls by 40 percent
The number of Minnesotans without health insurance fell by 40.6 percent between September 30, 2013 and May 1, 2014, according to a new report prepared by the School of Public Health State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC).