School of Public Health Assistant Professor Rachel Hardeman was honored with the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Professional Article Prize for her paper, “Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health Professionals,” published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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MnTAP wins Progress Minnesota Award
The Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) was awarded Finance & Commerce’s 2017 Progress Minnesota Award, which showcases economic development happening across the state. The program is housed in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health’s Environmental Health Sciences Division,
Ending Police Brutality Through Research
Faculty Rachel Hardeman and Donna McAlpine outline five pathways in which police brutality is a social determinant of health and call for the areas to be studied by public health researchers.
Detecting Infectious Diseases
Infectious disease epidemiologist and SPH Regents Professor Michael Osterholm answers questions about infectious disease outbreaks and shares tips from his latest book, “Deadliest Enemy” about what we can do to prepare.
HealthNewsReview.org Now Offers Help to Improve Health-related News Releases
Making the Environment Their Business
SPH’s Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) works with businesses across the state to produce less waste and to save water and electricity.
Exploring Why Women of Color Become Doulas
Podcasts Give Patients and Experts a Voice
HealthNewsReview.org, based at the School of Public Health, launches a podcast to help consumers better understand health news.
How Clinicians and Researchers Can Help Dismantle Structural Racism
Hardeman Leads New Project Addressing Racial Inequalities in Birth Outcomes
New Foodservice Training App Helps Immigrants Succeed
Professor Craig Hedberg and alumna Farhiya Farah have developed a smartphone app in English and Somali that uses videos and interactive features to describe food-safety practices and to train people in the Minnesota Food Code.
EnHS Grad Students Prabha Atluri and Melanie Firestone Receive MnDrive Global Food Ventures Fellowships
Environmental Health Sciences graduate students, Prabha Alturi and Melanie Firestone, have been awarded MnDrive Global Food Ventures fellowships for 2016-17. As part of the program, they will participate in activities designed to help build their skills in communications and problem solving along with pursuing individual research projects. Craig Hedberg, professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, will serve as their advisor.
