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EP172 From Anthropology to Advocacy with Katie Lynch

October 16, 2025
We speak with Katie Lynch, a doctoral candidate in Social and Behavioral Sciences, whose work uniquely blends anthropology, public health, and community-based research.
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EP132 Engineering Wellness with Nawal Panjwani

November 9, 2023
Engineering Wellness with Nawal Panjwani
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Building AI Through a Public Health Lens

Biostatistics
November 1, 2023
Dr. Rumi Chanara discusses AI's rapid progress and societal impact, advocating for a public health approach to its development. community involvement and local expertise to address societal issues.
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HealthTech Horizons: Innovations for a Healthier World

Biostatistics Public Health Policy and Management
October 28, 2023
Dr. Bill Weeks, Dr. Rumi Chunara, and Vincent Lopez discuss the game-changing innovations from AI to big data to telemedicine that are shaping the future of healthcare.
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Theory Tested by Fire

Epidemiology Social And Behavioral Sciences
October 18, 2023
Discover the challenges of recovering from the Maui wildfires, highlighting the support from individuals, public health practitioners, communities, and organizations like the Red Cross and FEMA.
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Don’t Overlook the Supply Chain!

Global and Environmental Health
October 6, 2023
Malnutrition in Chad and South Sudan worsened with funding cuts and climate change. With NYU's backing, efforts to enhance specialized nutritious food supply chains aim to address this issue.
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Bridging Theory and Practice: My Summer at NYU's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

October 3, 2023
GPH undergrad Medha Nagasubramanian details her enriching internship in neonatology at NYU Langone Health, highlighting hands-on research, clinical shadowing, and career exploration.
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Prioritizing Mental Health In Crises

September 20, 2023
Covid-19 has worsened mental health. Collective research efforts can shape policy that better addresses the mental health of marginalized communities during future large-scale public health threats.
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More Than Skin Deep

August 23, 2023
The Attachment and Health Disparities Lab examines the impact of discrimination on health, promoting inclusive research by using social media data and training underrepresented students.
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Creating New Professional Pathways

August 22, 2023
The Department of Biostatistics hosted its third cohort of the Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research program where students embarked on an intense summer of coding, data clean-up & analysis and mo...
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