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New Study Links 2023 Maui Wildfire to Spike in Suicide, Overdose
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This article was originally published by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Deaths by suicide and drug overdose significantly increased in the aftermath of the August
Recovering Better: Putting Human Rights First
A Nation in Pain, Held Hostage
The Cavalry is Coming
As the English theologian Thomas Fuller was long ago credited with saying, “The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”
In testimony after his dismissal in May, Dr. Rick Bright, the embattled
The Elephant in the Room
We lost a public health hero this week, Dr. Philip Lee, who fought tirelessly throughout his career for policies that made sense — among them the creation of Medicare and rational pharmaceutical
The Anatomy of Contagion
We’ve seen the pictures of beach-goers, bar patrons and street parties with revelers packed in, ignoring social distancing and only occasionally wearing masks. We’ve read about the August wedding
Sidebar:
Here is how behavior results in contagion and death:
For a primer on how the virus reproduces, Dr. Danielle Ompad, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at GPH kindly provided this brief