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Statistics in the Community is a community outreach organization offering the expertise of statistics graduate students—free of charge—to nonprofit organizations. They design studies, develop better data collection instruments, and analyze data for public good.
In 1954, the CEOs of every major US tobacco company gathered in New York City to plan a coordinated response to public opinion on tobacco. The portrait of who smokes today has changed since then, but the tobacco marketplace will morph.
Recent findings published in the Journal of Traumatology indicate that immigration raids are highly traumatic for those involved, and individuals exposed to such raids may meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD or express complex PTSD symptoms.
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.”
Combining physical-environmental data, population survey data, quantified ergonomic data, and socio-demographic data is a promising new frontier for making our cities healthier.