The adult cigarette smoking rate in the U.S. is down to 9.9%. Is this a major public health victory? And does it matter that for the first time, due to funding cuts, this statistic didn’t come from the federal government? Harvard Chan Schools Vaughan Rees weights in.
Clinicians in the Boston area are worried about the health of pregnant immigrants who are not coming in for care because they are afraid of immigration agents and possible deportation, according to a Boston Globe article.
Swathi Srinivasan, a PhD student in Population Health Sciences, leverages her journey through Hodgkin’s lymphoma to advocate for Narcan access and health equity in the opioid crisis.
Pandemic-era expansions to the Child Tax Credit—one of the largest income transfer programs in the U.S.—was associated with improved child behavioral health, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.