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Burning wood pellets for heat is a popular alternative that proponents argue is cleaner than other fuel sources.
But people living near pellet plants say they're production harms their health.
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H5N1 has moved from birds to cows, with farm & food workers at risk of exposure. Each exposure has the possibility of transmission & mutation.
“The more this virus circulates, the more there is a chance for mutations,” Prof Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH told PBS NewsHour. pbs.org/newshour/healt…
Physician group practices accrued large bonuses under Medicare’s bundled payment model. Sukruth Shashikumar of Brigham and Women's Medicine Residents, Andrew Ryan of Brown University School of Public Health + coauthors find BPCI-A participants accrued $421 million in incentives, 2018-20. Read the full article: bit.ly/3yl2qTV
Despite fewer overdose deaths in 2023, Professor Brandon Marshall warns against declaring early victory: 'It's certainly premature to celebrate or to draw any large-scale conclusions about where we may be headed long-term.' People, Place & Health Collective (PPHC) Brown Epidemiology abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…
Joe Silva Ph.D. '24 is among the first Brown University School of Public Health students to earn a fellowship with CDC. As part of USPHS Commissioned Corps's Epidemiological Intelligence Service, Joe will join the Respiratory Diseases Branch, working to help prevent future disease outbreaks.
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Federal agencies make decisions every day that protect us from harm. If they lose that power, we will be left to fend for ourselves.
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Professor Brandon Marshall spoke to the The Associated Press about the decline in reported overdoses last year:
“Any decline is encouraging. But I think it’s certainly premature to celebrate or to draw any large-scale conclusions about where we may be headed long-term with this crisis.”
'Medical waste, water bottles . . . anything that needed to be disposed of was put into these burn pits,' Professor David Savitz tells NBC 10 WJAR.
A study he led with Dr. Amal Trivedi found burn pit exposure increases Veterans' odds of asthma, COPD & stroke. turnto10.com/features/healt…
New Episode📣 Providence will be home to the 1st US, state-sanctioned safe injection site. Former police officer Professor Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA has studied the impact of OPCs in NYC. Hear what he found & his ideas for police & public service cooperation. 🔽 player.captivate.fm/episode/f9e20c…
Excited to see @Stef_Friedhoff, Claire Wardle, and Evelyn Pérez-Verdía representing Brown University School of Public Health at today’s Health Equity Zone event. Evelyn Pérez-Verdía, an Brown Information Futures Lab Visiting Fellow, is in town to co-present “Listening and responding to community information needs”. #community #listening
Nurse practitioners improve end-of-life care for those with Alzheimer's & other dementias. Professor Betsy White, APRN, PhD's findings have important implications for NP scope of practice regulations for hospitalization & hospice use in this population. BrownGerontology mcknights.com/news/nurse-pra…
The spread of avian flu among US livestock is driving concerns about possible dangers to workers. Professor Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH of Brown's Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health says 'farmworkers are being exposed, and we have good reasons to think that they are getting sick.' nytimes.com/2024/05/09/hea…
“If we prepare to collect information that’s only going to benefit others and not necessarily directly protect them, I just think that’s a very hard thing to do ethically.'
ICYMI: Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH was quoted in this piece from The New York Times on #H5N1 #BirdFlu . Link below ⤵️
New in JAMA Health Forum we examined NP care & end of life outcomes for nursing home residents with dementia.
We also assessed whether state regulations that restrict NPs from practicing independently or signing DNR orders influence these relationships.
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A new JAMA Network Open study by Professors David Savitz and Amal Trivedi of 500,000 Veterans 'provides some of the first solid evidence of an association between burn pit exposure and long-term health consequences,” Dr. Trivedi said. Brown Epidemiology Health Services, Policy & Practice Department sph.brown.edu/news/2024-05-0…
“We have no idea if this virus is going to evolve to become a pandemic strain but we know today that farmworkers are being exposed and we have good reason to think that they are getting sick.” Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH to Apoorva Mandavilli Linda Qiu Emily Anthes The New York Times:nytimes.com/2024/05/09/hea…
The #BrownSPH10 year celebration continues on May 10 with another alum improving health right here in RI: Dr. Joseph Diaz MD '96, MPH '09, assoc dean for diversity & multicultural affairs at The Warren Alpert Medical School & chief health equity officer at Care New England. sph.brown.edu/news/2024-05-1…