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New Research: Record High: Study Finds Growing Cannabis Use Among Older Adults

June 3, 2025
Older people who use marijuana today have higher income, education levels according to a recent analysis led by the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research.
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Making the Invisible Visible

October 7, 2022

NYU GPH and its Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice and Public Health recently marked the annual celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month as an opportunity to uplift Latinx communities —

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Putting Partners in the Driver's Seat

September 30, 2022

GPH hosted the first-ever UNICEF SBC Think Tank this week, following the recently-concluded UN General Assembly. UNICEF commissioned the Think Tank to provide guidance to the organization at all

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The Truth Behind the Numbers

September 23, 2022

New York City ranks among the wealthiest cities in the world, yet income inequality and health disparities remain significant problems across NYC neighborhoods. Life expectancy ranges from around 75

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Food, Politics and the Health of the Nation

September 22, 2022

The 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Food and Health is around the corner, and I think it’s going to be an exciting opportunity to address food system problems of hunger, chronic disease and

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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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