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How Nutritionists Evaluate What Americans Should Eat

Public Health Nutrition Research

March 21, 2025

From pyramids and plates to patterns and processing, NYU GPH’s Andrea Deierlein digs into the science behind the newest federal dietary guidelines.

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Stemming the Tide of Teen Vaping

September 16, 2022

In 2015, an article in Men’s Journal magazine referred to the novel JUUL e-cigarette as the “iPhone of e-cigs.” Pointing to the iPhone’s role in moving consumers from feature phones to smartphones

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Polio is Back — But We’re Not Ready for It

September 9, 2022

Image: Emergency polio ward in Boston in 1955 (The Conversation)

In June, a man from Rockland County in New York who had not been vaccinated against polio was hospitalized with paralysis — the

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Creating Pipelines to Research

August 19, 2022

The Department of Biostatistics hosted its second annual Pipelines into Quantitative Aging Research program, an intensive six-week summer course to research age-related illnesses.

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Our Duty in a Post-Roe World

August 19, 2022

The need for leadership by public health professionals on abortion has never been more urgent.

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Tackling a Great Public Health Challenge: Disease Elimination & Eradication

August 12, 2022

This summer GPH’s Global & Environmental Public Health Program, in collaboration with the Global Institute for Disease Elimination, developed a hybrid course on strategies to tackle a perennially ch...

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Inspiring the Next Generation of Scholars

August 12, 2022

The GPH College & Career Lab (CCL) opened its doors this summer to high school students from New York City to provide young scholars with an opportunity to explore the many facets of public health.

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