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African Americans represent 12% of the U.S. population, but carried 41% of all menthol-smoking-related premature deaths in the United States between 1980 and 2018, according to a new study researchers believe is the first to quantify the impact menthol cigarettes have had in Black communities across the country.
Health Behavior and Health Education professor Arline Geronimus has been selected as the 2021 James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship. The award recognizes a U-M senior faculty member who has made important contributions to understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, scholarship and creative endeavors.
Sebastian Zöllner, professor of Biostatistics at the U-M School of Public Health and of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine, will become Co-Director of the Precision Health initiative at the University of Michigan.
In February 2021, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) tweeted, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The tweet was designed to promote a podcast that was ostensibly focused on structural racism yet did not include experts on the topic. The subsequent uproar highlighted the harm caused by deep intentional ignorance of the term structural racism, defined in the American Journal of Public Health as “policies and practices…that confer advantages on people considered White and ideologies that maintain these advantages, while simultaneously oppressing other racialized groups.”
People who experience very severe COVID-19 illness have a higher prevalence of persistent symptoms, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Researchers at the University of Michigan joined forces with the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition and local community members to evaluate the noise impact of trucks on Southwest Detroit. Currently, trucks are being rerouted as part of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge construction.