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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.

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SPH Selects Winners of Dean’s Innovation Challenge

BU School of Public Health Blog

Monitoring Public Health Emergencies Huimin Cheng , assistant professor of biostatistics, and Vedika Srivastava , a research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, intend to use their award to develop a new digital platform that integrates multiple public data sources to enhance early detection and response to emerging health threats.