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Faculty Department: Community Health and Social Sciences
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…
CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute awarded grant to study expanding food benefits in response to COVID-19
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…
How health care facility characteristics affect HIV viral suppression among NYC patients
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…
How proximity to substance use treatment programs affects opioid-related health outcomes
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…
CUNY SPH student’s research cited by Contemporary OBGYN
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…
CDC renews NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center for third cycle of funding
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…
Associate Professor Levi Waldron awarded cancer genomics grant subcontract
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…
New chair announced for CUNY SPH Dean’s Advisory Council
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…
CUNY SPH surges in latest U.S. News and World Report Rankings
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…
Assessing the experience of undocumented immigrants with a health care financial assistance program
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…