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Biostatistics expert Peter Song and team have created a tool to assess the effectiveness of preventive measures in the fight against the COVID-19, still a new disease with many unknowns. The model lets us compare the impact of different levels of intervention so different locales can develop better strategies and policies to flatten the coronavirus curve.
A delegation of Michigan Public Health faculty and staff visited Kenya and Ethiopia in January 2020 to strengthen and build relationships with partners and to explore potential avenues for public health collaboration and research in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The University of Michigan School of Public Health’s Big Data Summer Institute has received a three-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to continue a program run by the Department of Biostatistics that introduces undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health.
From understanding the influence of congressional members’ Twitter accounts to discussing why the global crude oil price rose again after 2016, the second annual Data for Public Good Symposium will showcase the unique ways in which students, faculty, staff and community members have analyzed and assessed data to benefit others.
In the 1950s, most cars didn’t come with seatbelts standard. Now, your car won’t let you drive across the parking lot without dinging until you buckle up. Just how important is empirical data in evaluating public health risks and shaping public policy?
The next dean of the University of Michigan's School of Public Health will be F. DuBois Bowman, a distinguished researcher whose scholarship focuses on improving mental health and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and depression.