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Long before we could sequence a virus’s genome in a matter of weeks, we used public health tactics like contact tracing to sort out the movement of a disease in a population. Contact tracing is one of the “traditional” tools of epidemiologists. Today, we have more public health surveillance tools at our disposal, and we’ll need both the old and the new to bring COVID-19 under control.
A champion of global public health practice, training, and research, senior associate dean for Global Public Health Matthew Boulton has been appointed the Pearl L. Kendrick Collegiate Professor of Global Public Health by the University of Michigan Office of Research.
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.
From flooding, drought, and heatwaves to policy and health management to the unknown of a dynamic environment, climate change is placing increased pressure on public health practitioners to respond. How can the essential services we provide help our communities adapt to and thrive in these new climate realities?
As the nation continues to battle an epidemic of addiction and overdose related to opioids and other drugs, several teams of University of Michigan researchers have received millions of dollars in new federal funding to address the issue head-on.
Implementation science researchers have made great progress in understanding barriers to the delivery of evidence-based treatment and prevention programs and developing implementation strategies to improve program delivery. But so far, the widespread use of these strategies has been limited.