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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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Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations May Increase Care Engagement and Quality Among Pregnant and Postpartum Patients

BU School of Public Health Blog

Funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the study presents the first major findings from a five-year NIMHD grant that Dr. Cole received in 2023 to evaluate how Medicaid ACOs can improve quality and equity of care for pregnant patients.

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Student conference focuses on AI and DEI in health care

NC Health News

Wang comes at the issues cropping up with the advancement of artificial intelligence with the perspective of a student in public health with a concentration in biostatistics. And so that’s kind of where I started in thinking about all these things.

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COVID-19 in 2025: ‘A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One’

BU School of Public Health Blog

It is the job of public health to explain who is at highest risk and to propose strategies to reduce that risk, and when the empirical evidence shows that exposures and risks are patterned by race, ethnicity, gender, or other markers of identity, we need to be able to present that evidence clearly, Levy says.