Although harnessing renewable energy or enabling electric-vehicle transportation may be more visible efforts toward carbon neutrality, another area crucial to any push toward climate action is one that U-M students, staff and faculty encounter regularly: food.
According to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan, the Clalit Research Institute, and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, fully vaccinating children reduces the risk of hospitalization associated with influenza by 54%.
The long and illustrious careers of alums from Michigan’s program in Health Services Research and Policy demonstrate the impact of professionals trained in both practice and academia—a testament to the educational value of the program for students and the broad influence the program has had on health care management and policy in the US and beyond.
A new review of opioid misuse prevention policies across the United States analyzed the effectiveness of each policy on addressing prescribing, patient behavior, and patient health related outcomes.
Members of the University of Michigan School of Public Health’s Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) traveled to the US Virgin Islands to conduct a post-hurricane analysis of communities affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017.
The Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations (CAsToR) was recently awarded a diversity supplement to help conduct research on the influence of discrimination on patterns of tobacco product use.