Urban Health

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Departments Collaborate on Panel Discussing Future Climate Change and Health

Collaboration and Leadership from Trish Koman and Dean Bowman

The Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease recently sponsored its annual “Climate Change and Health: What the Science Says and What We Can Do” forum in collaboration with the Environmental Health Sciences department of the School of Public Health and the School for Environment and Sustainability of the University of Michigan.

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IN THE NEWS: Which Blare Project: Noisy New York Ponders Switch to Gentler Sirens

Rick Neitzel Quoted in the Guardian

New Yorkers are accustomed to hearing the rapid, pulsating “wail” and “yelp” sirens that echo around town. But for those who live near fire stations, police stations and hospitals, the sirens can seem like torture. Now a fresh campaign is under way to introduce softer, two-tone, European-style sirens.

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University of Michigan Launches New Projects to Fight Poverty

On any given day across Michigan nearly 100 homeowners or renters could be evicted—a rate almost one-and-a-half times the national average. That is a problem one of nine new projects funded by Poverty Solutions and with support from the Detroit Urban Research Center aims to tackle in 2019.

Empowering Populations

Empowering Populations

Pursuing a healthier, more equitable world for all, Michigan Public Health researchers are accompanying vulnerable individuals and communities on our way to designing a world that is a good deal healthier for everyone in it.

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Community Greening Efforts Help Reduce Violent Crime

New Research from Justin Heinze

Efforts to beautify vacant lots in the city of Flint have made neighborhoods more appealing but have also reduced assaults and violent crime by 40 percent, according to a new study led by Justin Heinze, assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education.