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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. Lisa Schavrien worked as a nurse for more than a decade before considering the link between voting and health. Department of Health and Human Services. For more on elections and how voting works, visit Votebeat.

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

BU School of Public Health Blog

September 27, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Up to 45 percent of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) cases could be prevented by modifiable risk factors, but current research is limited to observational studies that make it difficult to establish definitive causes.