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Practice Spotlight: Umaima Abbasi
December 8, 2025
Hailing from Pakistan, Umaima enrolled in GPH after earning her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. Her interests center on vaccine-preventable diseases, with aspirations to design immu...
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EP112 The Risks of Copycat Cannabis Edibles with Dr. Danielle Ompad
Epidemiology
April 20, 2022
We speak with Dr. Danielle Ompad, Associate Dean for Education and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at NYU School of Global Public Health, about her research on copycat cannabis edibles and their p...
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EP108 Protecting Our Essential Workers with Dr. Robyn Gershon
Epidemiology
January 20, 2022
We speak with Dr. Robyn Gershon, an interdisciplinary occupational and environmental health and safety researcher, about her extensive experience in disaster preparedness, healthcare safety, and risk ...
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Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19
Epidemiology
March 5, 2021
Dr. Emily Goldmann discusses the "hidden mental health pandemic" and stresses the critical need for research and interventions to address it.
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Major Drug Policy Reforms Happened This Week
Epidemiology
November 6, 2020
Drug policy reform has long been needed in the US. Our War on Drugs, declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971, has been ineffective and one major consequence has been mass incarceration of Black
School Closures Could Mean Billions Lost
Epidemiology
March 13, 2020
Dr. Joshua Epstein explains the consequences of school closures which sound beneficial but can cause deep rooted effects on the economy and population health.
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It’s a Small World After All – Reporting from Paris on COVID-19
Epidemiology
March 12, 2020
Dr. Joshua Epstein recaps his keynote address at the Conference on Integrative Economics as the country and the world enter response mode to the spread of COVID-19.
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Dispatch from the Road: Ukraine
Epidemiology
February 16, 2018
Dr. Danielle Ompad reports from Ukraine where she mentored the Ukraine 2018 Capstone Team.
Pictured above from left to right: Julia Dukach and Tetiana Saliuk from Alliance with Danielle Ompad
Dispatches from the Road: London
Epidemiology
January 19, 2018
Dr. Farzana Kapadia reports in from London, where she is teaching a J-term course, HIV/AIDS Public Health Promotion
(Pictured above: At a site visit to Positively UK to learn about peer support