Get to Know Health Behavior and Health Education Professor Carissa Schmidt
Carissa Schmidt
Get to know clinical assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education Carissa Schmidt.
Health Behavior and Health Equity Results
Advancing Care: Nurse Practitioners, At-Risk Communities, and the Ever-Expanding Education that Puts Nurses at the Heart of Serving Communities in Need
Nurses have been playing a unique and vital role in our battles against disease for centuries. Since the 1960s in the US, nurses have been at the forefront not only of health care services but also of health care administration and management. Nurses continue evolving their skills and the profession itself to meet needs beyond even their own imaginations and comfort levels.
New Video, Website Explain Coronavirus for Kids
The complexity of the coronavirus pandemic is especially difficult for children to understand. With that in mind, the University of Michigan School of Public Health has created a video to provide scientifically accurate information in a way that aims to get children and their families talking constructively about the coronavirus and the way it has impacted their lives.
IN THE NEWS: 'Micro' Aggressions, Large Lasting Effects
Arline Geronimus featured on PBS SOCAL
People pass micro-aggressions off as comedy or even just natural curiosity, but those who have experienced micro-aggressions can give you a more nuanced way of understanding how damaging these offhanded statements or actions can be.
Surviving the Coronavirus While Black: Pandemic's Heavy Toll on African American Mental Health
Q&A with Riana Anderson
Riana Anderson, assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education discusses how COVID-19 and recent racially charged events are affecting the mental health of African Americans during this time.
Contact Tracing: Use Volunteers or Paid Public Health Corps?
Q&A with Angela Beck
The House of Representative plans to introduce a bipartisan bill that would create a National Public Health Corps similar to AmeriCorps that would hire hundreds of workers to help conduct contact tracing as the US moves to reopen its economy. Angela Beck discusses the idea of such a workforce.