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Outside social support networks can be critical to improving the care and quality of life for Black nursing home residents.

Read more about this SPH study here: https://bit.ly/4fMnq5X

The School of Public Health will pause all social media posts from December 22 to January 5. We hope you stay safe, warm, and healthy during this time.

We'll be back to posting in early 2025. See you next year!

Environmental Health PhD student Ridwan Said shares how her classmates make her feel a strong sense of community and her decision to pursue a career in public health.

"[My classmates] are my backbone — we are supportive of one another and contribute to each other’s success. Public health is about people, and I want to be around people that make me feel a strong sense of community."

Read Ridwan's full Students of SPH article here: https://bit.ly/41HDzGe

Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as White women.

“No one is coming to save us,” says Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH , Professor and Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the School of Public Health.

Read the full article, "Why Black Women are Being Told to Speak Up During and After Childbirth" in the Washington Post

Why Black women are being told to speak up during and after childbirth Doulas, midwives, nurses and obstetricians are explicitly preparing Black women to speak up loudly for themselves in the delivery room.

New study shows that healthcare workers that experience burnout or wanting to leave their jobs, might be doing it because of ethical conflicts.

Read more about the research here: https://bit.ly/3ZJuJ8k

Applications for the Driven to Discover Research Facility at the Minnesota State Fair are open! Apply online by Jan. 21! d2d.umn.edu

UMN researchers are invited to take advantage of this unique opportunity to quickly and efficiently recruit study participants in minimal-risk, human-subjects research at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

Groundbreaking study finds link between air pollution and dangerous blood clots in healthy people. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4gxDTM5

Listen to Dean Pettigrew speaking on MPR's Angela Davis show on the decline in trust of public health messages amid a surge of misinformation.

How to strengthen trust in public health MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about how to strengthen trust in public health amid a surge of misinformation.

For rural residents, managing high blood pressure presents unique challenges, including longer travel distances, limited access to healthcare providers, and restricted internet speeds and telehealth options.

To address these challenges, School of Public Health researchers work to adapt a successful mobile technology-based hypertension care model called for rural communities.

Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3ZwUo4c

The Public Health Impacts of War by Charles Truong

"Growing up, my parents taught me never to waste an ounce of food. I remember thinking, “If you can, finish it. If you can’t, save it. If it goes bad, eat it anyway.”

Read Charles' full column here:

The Public Health Impacts of War - School of Public Health - University of Minnesota The Public Health Impacts of War Charles Truong November 18, 2024 Originally published in the November issue of the Notes on Antiracism, Justice, and Equity I didn't know my name was Charles until I was five. “The other kids are going to call you that.”...

“Maternal mortality is a tragedy for too many families...Closure of obstetric units and further limiting access to quality health care is only going to make the problem worse,” says lead author Katy Kozhimannil.

Read the full article here: z.umn.edu/sph_obs

Meet Bjorn Berg––SPH associate professor, baseball card collector, and pronto pup aficionado. His research is focused on saving lives through increasing the efficiency of health care delivery systems.

Read his Faculty in Focus here: https://bit.ly/3CPfN0U

Rural areas face isolation challenges related to transportation, internet and phone connectivity, and access to community gathering spaces. These communities also have unique strengths that can counter isolation.

SPH's Carrie Henning-Smith shares her expertise in solutions to social isolation in rural communities. Read more here: https://bit.ly/40UlvbD

School of Public Health research hub will focus on health and aging trends among rural Americans.

Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA), pools expertise from a range of disciplines to advance research, policies, and interventions tailored to improving the health of rural populations in communities across the U.S

School of Public Health research hub will focus on health and aging trends among rural Americans - School of Public Health - University of Minnesota A research network housed at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) will continue its focus on the unique health challenges faced by

New School of Public Health research center will explore the health impacts of climate change on American Indian and rural populations in the Upper Midwest.

The Mni Sota Center for Climate Change and Health (M3CH) is one of 21 centers across the U.S. funded by the National Institutes of Health to focus on the impacts of extreme weather and climate events on human health.

New center will explore the health impacts of climate change on American Indian and rural populations in the Upper Midwest - School of Public Health - University of Minnesota As recent severe weather events have made tragically clear, the effects of climate change pose widespread challenges to communities across the United States, but those negative effects are not evenly distributed. Due to a range of factors -- including u...

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