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Call for Commentaries: “Women’s Health Policies: Election 2020 and Beyond”
WASHINGTON, DC (March 11, 2020) — Critical women’s health issues—-including reproductive health, maternal mortality, chronic disease, mental health, and gender-based violence—-have not received...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 16, 2020)—Latino/a adolescents with a family member who was detained or deported beginning as early as 2017 were at high risk of suicidal ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 11, 2020) — Patricia (Polly) Pittman, PhD, will be the first Fitzhugh Mullan Professor of Health Workforce Equity.
Analyzing sexual minority women as a single group can obscure important differences. A new study in Women's Health Issues fills in some of the knowledge gaps.
WASHINGTON, DC and NEW YORK, NY (March 10, 2020) – The ACA has facilitated the rapid growth of community health centers, allowing them to reach millions of new patients.
Public Health Students Test “The Grandma Hypothesis”
Students swab the bellybutton and other less frequently washed hotspots and find less microbial diversity compared to more frequently washed areas of the skin.
WASHINGTON, DC (March 9, 2020) – In a study published today, researchers at GW Milken Institute SPH concluded that inadequacies in the Government of Puerto Rico’s ...
The Affordable Care Act’s Most Pressing Concern? Gaps in Medicaid Coverage.
Two million of the nation’s poorest working-age adults remain unable to access affordable health insurance coverage because they live in a state that has not expanded ...
Jeanne A. Jordan Wins Prestigious Clinical Virology Award
On March 2, the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology (PASCV) announced that Jeanne A. Jordan, PhD, will receive a prestigious career achievement award.
Environmental and Occupational Health Faculty and Staff Encourage Young Scientists
A group of young scientists from the Aidan Montessori School in Washington, D.C., recently visited the laboratory of ...
