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A Powerhouse Course in Women’s Health

March 20, 2024

There's no better time than Women's History Month to add a chapter by four GPH graduate students who are dedicated to improving women's health on a global level. They began the new year at beautiful

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Analytics in Action: My Summer Internship in Neuroscience

November 15, 2023
The city is your campus at NYU -- and Afra Shamnath, a second-year MPH student, certainly proved it with her summer internship analyzing datasets for a multiple sclerosis clinical trial at NYU Langone...
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Ultra Processed is Ultra Risky

November 15, 2023

Most of us already know that we should eat more whole grains and fiber, and less sugar, salt and saturated fat. But there’s new information in relation to our health that the processing of food — from

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Building AI Through a Public Health Lens

November 1, 2023

I’m pretty sure the laws of physics haven’t changed, but something about Chat GPT makes it feel like the world is moving faster and faster. These rapid changes lead me to consider how versions of

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Theory Tested by Fire

October 18, 2023

When it comes to recovery from climate disasters such as floods, hurricanes or wildfires, typically the greater the loss, the greater is the challenge to recover. Losses can include personal

 


Understanding the Ancestral Context of What Was Lost

Land and water rights are a particularly fraught issue in Hawai’i due to its history of American colonialism. Prior to Western occupation, Lahaina

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Don’t Overlook the Supply Chain!

October 6, 2023

Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) is a composite of severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition that has continued to present a challenge for communities around the world. To treat (and

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Bridging Theory and Practice: My Summer at NYU's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

October 3, 2023

A blog by CAS/GPH undergraduate student Medha Nagasubramanian

 

Students considering NYU as the next step in their academic journey have likely heard the phrase “The city is your campus.” This can be

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Prioritizing Mental Health In Crises

September 20, 2023

Research has shown that the Covid-19 pandemic increased the prevalence and severity of common mental disorders among people suffering from infection, health care workers, and in the general population

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More Than Skin Deep

August 23, 2023

Despite advances in prevention and treatment, alarming disparities in heart disease-related death continue to exist — particularly among Black Americans. Accordingly, the American Heart Association

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Achieving Racial Equity in Research

August 22, 2023
Increasing minority representation in academia and research is the goal for GPH's RARE (Research and Racial Equity) program, a six weeks programming for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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