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SPH Selects Winners of Dean’s Innovation Challenge

BU School of Public Health Blog

Dean Stein launched the competition on January 2, writing in his first message as dean, In 2025, the world needs the best work of public health more than ever [] We find ourselves at an extraordinary moment of challenge and opportunity.

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AI tools show potential to improve aging interventions and recommendations

News Medical Health Sciences

A collaborative study between researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and aging Research, Rostock University Medical Center, Germany, investigated how advanced AI tools, like Large Language Models (LLMs), can make it easier (..)

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Shared Priorities for International Cooperation in Active and Healthy Aging

The Health Care Blog

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0. A Panel Discussion reflected on how the findings of the IDIH Digital Health Transformation Forum around the areas of Interoperability by Design, Data Governance, and Digital Inclusion might be impacted in a post-COVID-19 scenario.

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Public Health Master’s Degrees in Epidemiology: What Questions to Ask

BU School of Public Health Blog

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

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Breast milk from Mennonite moms on farms better protects babies from allergies

Frontiers

Similarly, a survey from 2020 estimated that approximately 100 million (30%) Americans of all ages have allergies today. For example, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology estimates that half of the population of the EU will have allergies by 2025: an increase by 20 percent points since 2015.

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Professor Receives $29M NIH Grant to Study Dementia Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment

BU School of Public Health Blog

Maria Glymour Maria Glymour , chair and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health; Jacqueline Torres, associate professor of epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco; and Paola Gilsanz, research scientist II at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, have received a $28.8

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Public Health Master’s Degrees Programs: What To Look For

BU School of Public Health Blog

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.