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The Wearables In Reducing Risk and Enhancing Daily Lifestyle Center (WIRED-L) aims to investigate how mobile health (mHealth) technology, such as smartwatches and smartphones, can be used to study and improve health behaviors among hypertensive populations. Bhramar Mukherjee, Chair and professor of Biostatistics, serves as co-investigator of the center.
Michigan Public Health student Anthony Dang and his team earned the top prize at the 2020 Innovation in Action competition. The four-person team created Heard, an app designed to digitally connect individuals with chronic illness to peer support.
For vulnerable populations—the elderly, those with chronic illness and mental health issues, and those without the means to work from home or access affordable health care—measures we've undertaken to slow the spread of coronavirus can have life-threatening consequences. To better understand how the virus will impact the most vulnerable, we spoke with University of Michigan School of Public Health epidemiologists Sharon Kardia and Jon Zelner.
The School of Public Health's long-running Preventive Medicine Residency trains highly-qualified physicians for careers in clinical preventive medicine and public health. For decades, the program has been a strong partner for local and state health departments and served population health systems around the world.
Chronic stress can often negatively impact the physical health of marginalized Americans, including the working class, but guaranteed paid time off may alleviate some of the factors that can lead to chronic illnesses.
Five years in, the US$360 million Accelerating Medicines Partnership is yielding tools to speed up drug discovery for rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, diabetes, Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease.