YOUTUBE: Northwestern professor Lori Post talks reasoning behind mass shootings with
PODCAST: KNX 1070 NewsRadio While the United States is starting to get a grip on the COVID pandemic, in the rest of the world infections are reaching record highs -- the situation ... desperate. And the fate of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine hangs in the balance today.
Listen to Podcast (starts at 6:30)
NBC NEWS: COVID slowed mass shootings. But from Colorado to California, they're back. Here's why. "March of 2020 will forever be remembered as the month the World Health Organization’s director-general officially declared that Covid-19 was a global pandemic. But as a mass shooting researcher, I will remember it as the month mass shootings stopped."
Read Full Article Here
USNEWS: Opioid Deaths Spiked in Chicago’s Home County While a Stay-at-Home Order Was in Effect
Read Full Article
|
|
|
The Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics within the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM), Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, is now also apart of the Institute for Global Health. We will continue to help foster high-quality, policy-relevant economic research and disseminate it widely to decision-makers in the public and private sectors, while aligning with IGH's mission to expand knowledge, capacity and equity in global health through transdisciplinary research and education partnerships.
"Through policy, the Buehler Center amplifies IGH's mission to foster healthy populations, promote health security, and lead in public health science and practice globally," Lori Post, PhD, Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics.
|
|
 Buehler Center members, we would love to share your announcements, events, news, publications and media in our newsletter. If you have things you would like to share, please send them to us through the link below. Images, weblinks and videos that are published on youtube or Vimeo are welcomed.
|
|
SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance System in Canada: Longitudinal Trend Analysis
"The COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted structures and communities across the globe. Numerous regions of the world have had varying responses in their attempts to contain the spread of the virus. Factors such as public health policies, governance, and sociopolitical climate have led to differential levels of success at controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Ultimately, a more advanced surveillance metric for COVID-19 transmission is necessary to help government systems and national leaders understand which responses have been effective and gauge where outbreaks occur." - JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(5):e25753 doi:10.2196/25753
Read Full Article Here
The Pandemic Stay-at-Home Order and Opioid-Involved Overdose Fatalities
"In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois enacted a stay-at-home order on March 21, 2020; the order was lifted on May 30, 2020. This report describes trends in opioid-involved overdose deaths over a 3-year period and highlights the number of deaths during the 11-week Illinois stay-at-home order. Trends in substance involvement are also examined." -
JAMA. Published online April 23, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.6700
Read Full Article Here
Enabling the Environment for Private Sector Investment: Impact on Food Security and Poverty
"Millions of people worldwide live in extreme poverty, which has an adverse effect on global food security.Research shows that growth in the agricultural labor sector has twice the impact on poverty compared to growth in other labor sectors." - De Gruyter | Published online: April 14, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jafio-2021-0013
Read Full Article Here
Latin America and the Caribbean SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance: Longitudinal Trend Analysis
"The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented stress on economies, food systems, and health care resources in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Existing surveillance provides a proxy of the COVID-19 caseload and mortalities; however, these measures make it difficult to identify the dynamics of the pandemic and places where outbreaks are likely to occur. Moreover, existing surveillance techniques have failed to measure the dynamics of the pandemic." - JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(4):e25728 DOI: 10.2196/25728
Read Full Article Here
Surveillance of the Second Wave of COVID-19 in Europe: Longitudinal Trend Analyses
"The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted Europe, resulting in a high caseload and deaths that varied by country. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has breached the borders of Europe. Public health surveillance is necessary to inform policy and guide leaders." - JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(4):e25695 DOI: 10.2196/25695
Read Full Article Here
|
|
|
|
|
