By Jonathan Block The new semester has started, and with it, stress and assignment deadlines for classes. Students this semester also have to contend with another factor, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has... The post Suicide Prevention 101: How to Handle Suicidal Ideation or Crisis appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy .
The WT Grant Foundation and the Spencer Foundation have jointly awarded the Urban Food Policy Institute at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) a grant to study successful strategies for... The post CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute awarded grant to study expanding food benefits in response to COVID-19 appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health &…
To test the association of these characteristics with the achievement and maintenance of HIV suppression among newly-diagnosed New York City residents, CUNY SPH doctoral alumna Ellen Wiewel—now the director of research and evaluation at the... The post How health care facility characteristics affect HIV viral suppression among NYC patients appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health &…
Despite federal and state efforts to reduce opioid availability and increase treatment access, opioid-related deaths are on the rise in New York and 29 other states. To examine whether geographic access to treatment options helped... The post How proximity to substance use treatment programs affects opioid-related health outcomes appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health…
DMPA, OCs and risk of STIs By Bob Kronemyer Depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) and oral contraceptives (OCs) reduce risk of trichomoniasis, according to results of a systematic review. The review in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases... The post CUNY SPH student’s research cited by Contemporary OBGYN appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy .
While New York City has been at the national forefront of innovative programming and policy to improve chronic disease prevention and care, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities have widened, and many of the city’s minority... The post CDC renews NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center for third cycle of funding appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy .
Levi Waldron was awarded a subcontract from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics grant, also in collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Waldron’s team will create a new software package to provide... The post Associate Professor Levi Waldron awarded cancer genomics grant subcontract appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health…
Freida Foster, current member of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Dean’s Advisory Council, former Trustee and longtime CUNY advocate, is stepping into the role. Ms. Foster served as... The post New chair announced for CUNY SPH Dean’s Advisory Council appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy .
CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) has been ranked 23rd in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for the academic quality of its programs. CUNY SPH was the... The post CUNY SPH surges in latest U.S. News and World Report Rankings appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy .
New York City Health and Hospitals (HandH) is the largest municipal health care system in the U.S., offering care to all New Yorkers regardless of their ability to pay. The organization’s Options program is a... The post Assessing the experience of undocumented immigrants with a health care financial assistance program appeared first on CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy .