Boston University

Public Health

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, obesity, overweight, Andrew Stokes, global health

Health & Medicine

Being Overweight May Be Deadlier Than We Think

October 29, 2014

Douglas Brooks, Director, United States Office of National AIDS Policy

Health & Medicine

National AIDS Policy Director Urges Collaboration on HIV/AIDS

October 21, 2014

e-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, personal vaporizer, vaping

Public Health

Behind the Vapor

October 20, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Public Health, Pike Lecture on Health Law, Boston Globe reporter Michael Rezendes, Bridgewater State Hospital,

Law

How Media Can Help Medicine and the Law Protect Patients

October 15, 2014

Boston University BU, Initiative on Cities IoC, Mayor Thomas Menino student fellow, Hannah Carey, Chelsea Desrochers, Cortney Tunis

Health & Medicine

Learning What Makes Local Governments Tick, Here and Abroad

October 2, 2014

Ray Rice, Baltimore Ravens, National Football League, NFL, relationship abuse, violence against women, Emily Rothman, Boston University School of Public Health, SPH

Football

NFL Controversy Offers a Teachable Moment

September 26, 2014

Boston University Police Department, BUPD, naloxone, narcan, opiate overdose antidote drug, heroin overdose antidote drug

BUPD

BU Police Will Carry Antidote for Heroin Overdose

September 24, 2014

William J. Bicknell Lecture in Public Health, Should Alcohol Consumption Be Encouraged as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle?, Timothy Naimi, Richard Saitz, R. Curtis Ellison, Lionel Tiger

Health & Medicine

SPH’s Bicknell Lecture: To Drink or Not to Drink?

September 23, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, dean Sandro Galea

Medicine

School of Public Health Has a New Dean

September 15, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Engineering ENG, Muhammad Zaman, engineering grant, PharmaChk

Public Health

$2 Million to ENG’s Zaman to Develop Counterfeit Drug Detector

September 11, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH fellowships, Santander global bank funding

Global

Santander Extends Funding for BU Public Health Fellowships

September 8, 2014

George Annas, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University School of Public Health SPH, ethics, public health ethics, Ebola virus, ZMAPP, ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, how to treat Ebola virus

Global Health

Battling Ebola: The Ethical Issues

August 13, 2014

Boston University BU, ebola virus, point of view POV, opinon editorial op ed, Peter Duprex

Infectious Diseases

POV: Battling Ebola. It’s Our Problem, Too

August 8, 2014

deforestation in africa, ebola virus disease, ebola hemorrhagic fever, ebola epidemic response, ebola virus transmission

Disease

Battling Ebola: Is Human Activity to Blame?

August 7, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM MED, Ronald Corley, John R. Murphy, National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories NEIDL, ebola outbreak research

National Institutes of Health

Battling Ebola: NEIDL’s Role

August 7, 2014

ebola virus particles, ebola hemorrhagic fever, ebola virus disease, ebola virus ecology, ebola virus transmission

Global

Battling Ebola: Working with a Deadly Virus

August 7, 2014

Ebola Virus Disease outbreak, West Africa Ebola virus outbreak 2014, viral outbreak pattern

Public Health

Battling Ebola: Tracking the Virus

August 6, 2014

Davidson Hamer, Boston University School of Public Health, SPH, global health and medicine, international health, ebola virus outbreak, West Africa ebola virus outbreak 2014, global response plan

Public Health

Battling Ebola: Grading the Global Response to the Epidemic

August 6, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Medicine MED BUSM,John Connor, NEIDL, Photonics Center, ebola research

Research

Battling Ebola: How Ebola Kills

August 5, 2014

School of Medicine, Nahid Bhadelia, Guillermo Madico

Global

Battling Ebola: Heading Into the Outbreak

August 4, 2014

Battling Ebola: Heading Into the Outbreak