Detroit

Community-based collaborative to improve birth outcomes for Detroit Latinas

Collaborative to identify key barriers and facilitators to positive birth outcomes and create a strategic plan for change

Michigan Public Health researchers are leading a new community-based project aimed at improving maternal and child health for Latina women in Detroit.

Project HEARD Empowers Community Organizations for Effective Policy Change

The project utilizes community-academic partnerships to work toward defined policy goals set forth using a community-based participatory approach.

Project HEARD (Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit), a Detroit URC policy initiative co-led by Michigan Public Health faculty and community partners, supports community-led efforts to advance health equity in Detroit and beyond.

Detroit is the country's fifth worst city for people with asthma, new report says

Stuart Batterman quoted in the Michigan Advance

Detroit is one of the worst cities in the country for people with asthma, leaving adults and children to deeply struggle with what can be a fatal disease, according to a new report published Thursday by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA).

Air pollution continues to be focus of community coalition to promote a healthy environment in Detroit

People living and working in Detroit are exposed to elevated levels of a variety of air pollutants. Six years after releasing a Public Health Action Plan, work is moving forward on community initiatives to expand responses to air pollution in Detroit.

Identifying air pollution sources in Southwest Detroit

New research from Michigan Public Health

Recently, a University of Michigan School of Public Health research team released a new study in the journal Atmosphere that aims to identify these sources in an area of Michigan with some of the highest levels of air pollution in the country: Southwest Detroit.

How 30,000 Detroit trees bloomed into a better way for researchers to predict airborne pollen

New research from Michigan Public Health

Working with aerial and satellite imagery and more than 30,000 trees in Detroit, researchers from the University of Michigan set out in 2017 to find a better way to measure pollen.