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Cool Course: Data, AI, and the People’s Health

December 8, 2025
Using real-world case studies and datasets, students in a new NYU School of Global Public Health class explore how algorithms are shaping our health.
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Prof. Don Des Jarlais Featured in PBS Documentary on Opioids

Research Epidemiology
September 27, 2024
In a PBS Thirteen documentary, drug research and policy experts like Don Des Jarlais outline the brutal and stubborn resilience of the opioid drug history.
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EP151 Danger in Disguise: Uncovering Environmental Toxins with Dr. Jack Caravanos

Global and Environmental Health
September 26, 2024
In this episode we speak with Dr. Jack Caravanos, a renowned expert in environmental health, to uncover the hidden threats that pollution poses to public health.
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GPH Research Aims to Improve HPV Vaccine Uptake to Reduce Cancer Risk in Africa

Research Public Health Policy and Management
September 17, 2024
More than $6 million in NIH funding will support Professor Corrina Moucheraud’s global health research to increase human papillomavirus vaccination in Kenya and Malawi and reduce cervical cancer ris...
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EP150 The Texts to Inspire Program with Matilda Melkonian and Issy Torney

September 12, 2024
We chat with Matilda Melkonian (GPH '24) and Issy Torney (MPH student), Health Promotion Assistants at NYU's Student Health Center.
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EP149 Fitness, Sociology, and Public Health with Leroy Akoto

Public Health Policy and Management
August 29, 2024
We speak with Leroy Akoto, an MPH student studying Public Health Policy and former personal trainer turned public health advocate.
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Summer Research Publications at GPH

Research
August 27, 2024
Public health research doesn't take a vacation during the summer — and neither do the efforts of our research faculty and staff! View the full list of publications featuring the expertise of the GPH...
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EP148 Empowering Communities in Cameroon with Zoe-Marie Mongbet-Lamare

Social And Behavioral Sciences
August 14, 2024
Join us for an inspiring conversation with Zoe-Marie Mongbet-Lamare, Master of Public Health student concentrating in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Cultivating New Leaders: 4th Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research Program

Research Biostatistics
August 14, 2024
12 undergraduate students from across the U.S. embarded on a summer in the big apple to gain skills in statistics, computing, epidemiology and public health research methodology.
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The Human Cost of Politicizing Immigration

Social And Behavioral Sciences
August 14, 2024
The politicization of immigration has intensified—particularly in the context of the 2024 presidential election—spurring nationalist rhetoric, racial and ethnic discrimination, and scapegoating, a...
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