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As a student-athlete, Michigan Public Health doctoral student Traci Carson developed the Female Athlete Triad—a relationship of menstrual dysfunction, low energy availability (with or without an eating disorder), and decreased bone mineral density that strikes female athletes across high-impact sports. In her own words, Traci explains the Triad and her research into prevention.
With the growing fear of arrest and deportation under the Trump administration, many members of immigrant communities don’t feel able to seek health care. University of Michigan researchers are exploring this phenomenon, called the “chilling effect.”
Having recently traveled to Texas to assist with hurricane recovery, Dana Thomas reflects on the experience and the value of public health practice in disaster recovery and preparedness.
Combining physical-environmental data, population survey data, quantified ergonomic data, and socio-demographic data is a promising new frontier for making our cities healthier.
My interactions with these older adults were so authentic, and for the first time I truly realized that the environment they were living in and other structural factors should inform our approach to care. This was public health. This is public health.