Department of Global and Community Health

Player FM (audio): Dr. Anna Pollack and Dr. Jhumka Gupta comment on the safety of common menstrual products

January 25, 2023

How Safe Are Common Menstrual Products?
Houston Defender Network: Dr. Jhumka Gupta is quoted in an article on how period poverty affects Black women and girls

January 25, 2023

Period poverty: Health crisis for Black women, girls
Williams receives Prevent Cancer Foundation grant to increase lung cancer awareness among high-risk populations in Mississippi

January 23, 2023

Assistant Professor Michelle S. Williams will create two online training programs: (1) To train community health workers to implement a lung cancer screening awareness program and (2) To educate high-risk populations about prevention for the disease.
NBC News: Picks up Associated Press article on who deserves credit for decrease in Mpox where Dr. Amira Roess is quoted

January 11, 2023

Mpox has faded in the U.S. Who deserves the credit?
NBC4: Dr. Amira Roess is quoted in an article on why the U.S. shut down its emergency response to the virus

January 11, 2023

What Happened to Mpox? Here's Why the US Shut Down Its Emergency Response to the Virus
Fox 5 DC (video): Dr. Amira Roess is interviewed about the District of Columbia’s decision to require students to show a negative COVID test prior to coming back in January and about how to stay safe over the holidays

December 16, 2022

DC Public Schools to require negative COVID tests after Winter Break
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Picks up the Associated Press story in which Dr. Amira Roess comments on decreased death rates in the U.S. that remain higher than pre-pandemic levels

December 15, 2022

Long covid can be deadly, national health figures show
Omaha World-Herald: Picks up the Associated Press story in which Dr. Amira Roess comments on decreased death rates in the U.S. that remain higher than pre-pandemic levels.

December 15, 2022

U.S. Deaths Drop in 2022, But Still Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels
NBC4 Washington: Picks up the Associated Press story in which Dr. Amira Roess comments on decreased death rates in the U.S. that remain higher than pre-pandemic levels.

December 14, 2022

After Deadliest Year in US History, Deaths in 2022 Still High But Trend Down
MSN: Picks up the Associated Press story in which Dr. Amira Roess comments on decreased death rates in the U.S. that remain higher than pre-pandemic levels

December 15, 2022

U.S. Deaths Drop in 2022, But Still Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels

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