Epidemiology

Child care centers unlikely source for COVID-19 transmission, study finds

New study from Emily Martin, associate professor of Epidemiology

Children in child care centers are not spreading COVID-19 at significant rates to caregivers or other children at the center, nor to their households, according to a study led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh pediatrician-scientists and published today in JAMA Network Open.

$17.5M in CDC funding establishes the Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreak Analytics and Modeling (MICOM)

The University of Michigan School of Public Health is among 13 institutions that will receive funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a network of centers focused on predicting and preparing for future disease outbreaks.

MI CReSS report explores link between state's geographic regions and impact of the pandemic

The latest report from University of Michigan public health researchers studying how COVID-19 affected Michiganders found that the severity of illness or negative impact of the pandemic is strongly linked to where one lives.

Air Pollution Risks: Exploring Links Between Wildfires, Farming, and Increased Dementia Cases

Increasingly, evidence shows exposure to air pollution makes the brain susceptible to dementia.

No amount of air pollution is good for the brain, but wildfires and the emissions resulting from agriculture and farming in particular may pose especially toxic threats to cognitive health, according to new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Majority of older adults with cognitive impairment still drive

Researchers highlight the importance of caregivers having conversations with care recipients and health care professionals about driving

The majority of older adults with cognitive impairment are still driving, despite concerns raised by caregivers and others, a Michigan Medicine study in a South Texas community finds.

Behavior problems might be partly attributed to sleep cycles in adolescents

In this Q&A, PhD student Mia Qihan Zhu and Eduardo Villamor, professor of Epidemiology, discuss their recent study conducted in Colombia that examined sleep-wake cycles in adolescents and its relationship to behavioral issues.