Social Inequities Explain Racial Gaps in Pandemic, Studies Find
Jon Zelner featured in the New York Times
Higher rates of infection and mortality among Black and Hispanic Americans are explained by exposure on the job and at home, experts said.
Social Epidemiology
Study Seeks to Find the Relationship Between COVID-19, Social Isolation, and Mental Health in Older Adults
Q&A with Lindsay Kobayashi
Researchers from the University of Michigan are working on a study to determine the mental health impacts and well-being among older adults during the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 Coping Study, an online survey of US adults ages 55 and older, highlights the complexities and layers in which the virus impacts our society—in ways that are more than just contracting the disease.
Public Health Surveillance: Immunity, Testing, and Contact Tracing
Q&A with Abram Wagner
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.
IN THE NEWS: Stacking Best Practices to Help Michiganders Safely Return to Work
Article by Dean DuBois Bowman and Sharon Kardia
We are all eager to get back to work, but how do we move forward in a way that safeguards the public’s health?
Social Distancing 2.0: A New Normal
Q&A with Abram Wagner
We’re all wondering when we can return to work, see friends and family, and get back to some sense of normal. Meanwhile, we might notice that a planned temporary hospital wasn’t built or that some data seems to show a reduction in the spread of coronavirus. What do we do with emerging shades of gray in a situation that seemed so black and white not too long ago?
University of Michigan School of Public Health Professors Detail COVID-19 Model at Michigan Governor's Press Conference
Michigan Public Health Epidemiology professors Marisa Eisenberg and Emily Martin attended Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s update on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic on April 22, 2020, detailing the model developed by a group of experts and researchers at the School of Public Health.