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March 19, 2019 – The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) was awarded its first named and endowed doctoral fellowship, provided by a generous $625,000 pledge from Dr. M. Lyndon Haviland, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the CUNY SPH Foundation. The Lyndon Haviland Fellowship will provide one incoming doctoral student […]
CUNY SPH Associate Professor 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 streamlined, analyst-friendly access to hundreds of multiomic datasets and tens of thousands of cancer patients in the […]
We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new chair to the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Dean’s Advisory Council. Freida Foster, current member of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Dean’s Advisory Council, former Trustee and longtime CUNY advocate, is stepping […]
CUNY SPH surges in latest U.S. News & World Report Rankings Lone public school or program in N.Y. City, State to crack Top 25 CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (CUNY SPH) has been ranked 23rd in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the academic quality of its programs. […]
Since the Affordable Care act was implemented in 2010, the percentage of uninsured adults in the U.S. has declined significantly. Despite this progress, over 28 million people remain uninsured, 21 percent of whom are non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants. New York City Health and Hospitals (H&H) is the largest municipal health care system in the U.S., […]
In light of recent measles outbreaks across the nation, Dr. Scott C. Ratzan, Senior Scholar at CUNY SPH, co-authored an op-ed published in the Washington Post on Thursday urging federal policymakers to take action, requiring states to eliminate nonmedical exemptions to vaccination mandates and to combat widespread online misinformation regarding vaccines. States are failing on vaccinations. The […]
Testosterone replacement is increasingly used by older men, particularly in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration has warned of the risk of heart attack and stroke on testosterone, and requested a large randomized controlled trial to assess the cardiovascular effects of testosterone. To explore whether there is a strong association between testosterone and […]
CUNY SPH Dean Ayman El-Mohandes moderated a panel discussion last week on public health programs at CUNY Community Colleges at the 2019 League for Innovation in Community Colleges Conference. Presenters Associate Professor Andrea Salis and Assistant Professor Anuradha Srivastava of Queensborough Community College, and panelists Stacia Reader, Associate Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation […]
Three CUNY SPH students in the MPH program are recipients of the CUNY School of Medicine Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) fellowships for 2019. CEESP is a research training program funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute to develop the careers of public health students in the field of cancer epidemiology […]
Adequate sleep is a key aspect of a healthy lifestyle. Recent research has revealed an association between sleep duration and the development of diabetes. This could reflect causal effects of sleep on diabetes, or sleep duration may be the result of other factors that cause diabetes. No randomized controlled trials have assessed the effect of […]
Men who have sex with men and use stimulant drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine are at an increased risk of contracting HIV, since stimulant drug use decreases inhibitions and makes the user less likely to use a condom during sex. Dr. Christian Grov, Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences at CUNY SPH, and […]
In recent studies, women who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB), or who report attraction to or sex with women indicated greater levels of substance use and risky sexual behavior. Few studies have measured associations between different components of sexual orientation (i.e., sexual identity, attraction, or behavior) and health risk behaviors, particularly over time. […]
February 14, 2019 – The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) was awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant from the New York Community Trust to provide 10 scholarships annually of $8,750 to aspiring women or minority graduate students who intend to pursue the Master of Science program in Environmental and Occupational […]
Trends in family demography in the United States and other industrialized nations such as declining and delayed marriage and childbearing have, until recently, been predominantly studied using large-scale datasets identifying total population and subgroup trends over time, including differences by age, gender, racial/ethnic, and other characteristics. There is limited understanding of how individuals across different […]
In an op-ed in The Hill, CUNY SPH Distinguished Scholar and Foundation Board Chair Lyndon Haviland urges lawmakers to create and pass a feasible plan to address climate change. Our health depends on the passage of an achievable Green New Deal By Lyndon Haviland, Opinion Contributor The Green New Deal is all the rage in […]
