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Major Drug Policy Reforms Happened This Week

… and sentencing guidelines. There is also inequitable access to economic opportunities in the new Cannabusiness economy (see this video from hip hop artist and businessman Jay-Z and artist … major strides were made this week on Election Day towards more humane US drug policy. Four new states (Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota) legalized recreational cannabis. They …

Help a Mother, Help the Future: Maternal Mental Health

… as an opportunity to raise funds and awareness for mental health among pregnant women and new mothers. In addition to the fundraising activities, we will be hosting a raffle with exciting … and local organizations to improve mental health conditions among pregnant women and new mothers. By fundraising for mothers, we aim to provide them with the necessary support and …

Message from Dean Cheryl Healton: Gun Violence Prevention

… prevention laws aimed at saving lives. On April 11th, Vermont’s Governor Phil Scott signed a new law there.  “The three measures Scott signed include new background check requirements, age restrictions on gun purchases, and a ban on ‘bump stocks,’ … the thought leaders and top researchers from partner states together to undertake significant new research on all manners of gun violence, data collection and analysis across multiple …

Practical Advice in Reducing Health and Safety Risk in the Aftermath of Weather-Related Emergencies

… Health Hurricanes Floyd, Sandy, Irene, and most recently Ida – have shown us that we are in a ‘new normal’ for hazardous New Jersey weather. How can homeowners, renters and small businesses safely clean up their …

Forecasting Healthy Futures (FHF) Global Summit 2023

… priorities worldwide. The Summit aims to advance the above goals by: reinforcing the need for new action for disease elimination in the face of increasing volatility caused by climate change, … describing what is needed to create “climate resilient health systems," present a range of new tools and technologies from the perspectives of both their architects and their user groups, …

Joint GPH & NYU Grossman Biostatistics Seminar with Samrachana Adhikari, PhD

… Department of Population Health  Division of Biostatistics   While social network data provide new opportunities to understand complex relational mechanisms, they also present modeling … and identically distributed, as commonly assumed in many statistical models, and hence require new tools to analyze the data, to make inference and address issues of model selection and … examples of what is a growing body of research, much of the research is focused on proposing new models or extending others. There has been very little work on unifying the models in a …

Diwali: Public Health Challenges of Holidays

… evil” depends in part on geography. For instance, families in Gujarat (where I come from) buy new clothes and shoes, clean their homes and make intricate circular patterns with colored … ( Navratri ) of dancing, and people pray to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, for a prosperous new year.   Pictured: Rangoli made by Niyati's daughters with lentils and beans.   However, in my …

Hurricanes, COVID-19 and the Power of Collective Action

… virus. In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the city of New Orleans was a ghost town: houses gutted, streets without power, debris stretching for miles. Seventy percent of the city was underwater. But in one neighborhood in New Orleans East, a Vietnamese-American stronghold, people were returning by the thousands, …

GPH Staff Spotlight: Andrea Muraca

… with Julie. We are really like a family. Working in student affairs continually offers new challenges and requires new strategies and ideas to deal with these challenges. In the corner of my office, I have two … years and the challenges that refugees have to face, often alone, scared and traumatized in a new country. Favorite movie of all time? I can't pick between these three: Jaws (1975), Jurassic …

Bioethics Spring 2023 Colloquium Series: The Value of Unity with Dr. Leif Wenar

… Center for Bioethics Join Dr. Leif Wenar for a conversation about his project which outlines a new approach to intrinsic value, an enhanced desire-satisfaction theory structured around logical relations that desires have to the world and to each other. This new theory overcomes several familiar challenges to the traditional theories, while bettering …