This meeting will be hybrid. In-person meeting location will be in the Thomas Conference Room (2-205) at the Welch Center (2024 E. Monument St). Please contact the meeting coordinator for Zoom details ...

As suicide rates continue to rise in communities globally, the United States face a growing demand for responsive mental health support systems. While emergency systems for natural disasters, criminal ...

The CDC also reports estimates of both medical and non-medical exemptions to vaccination requirements. While medical exemptions remained stable at 0.2% in 2024-25, non-medical exemptions reached an ...

The White House is taking steps to close the "gun show loophole.” We commend the administration for prioritizing gun violence prevention. However, research shows that more must be done.

The U.S. has reported more than 1,600 cases of measles to date in 2025, the largest number of cases since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Effectively responding to a measles outbreak ...

Medical misinformation has the potential to negatively impact health outcomes for people who have been marginalized. This reality became all too clear during the COVID-19 pandemic when medical ...

. The authors note that the study has limitations due to varying state policies. Other limitations include data completeness, consistency in contextual facets of state policies, and social ...

Home CDC Provisional Data: Gun Suicides Reach All-time High in 2022, Gun Homicides Down Slightly from 2021 ...

On July 13, FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the two-dose Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and over. The FDA's advisory panel recommended issuing the EUA in June, but ...

A new study published in December in JAMIA Open and led by Department of Health Policy and Management researchers including Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, aims to address ...

On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, communities exist alongside some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical production plants. Since the 1980s, the area has ...

Signed into law on July 4, the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act—also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—includes sweeping changes to who is eligible for health insurance in the U.S. The majority of ...