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Watch the Webinar: Connecting Research to Policy at the Nexus of Health and Education
Public Policy
March 4, 2021

Watch the Webinar: Connecting Research to Policy at the Nexus of Health and Education

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The Other Dead of 1918
News
May 15, 2018

The Other Dead of 1918

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Theresa Marteau on Healthy Environments
Public Policy
July 7, 2017

Theresa Marteau on Healthy Environments

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‘Health of People’ Kickoff Calls Childhood Obesity ‘National Scandal’
News
April 7, 2017

‘Health of People’ Kickoff Calls Childhood Obesity ‘National Scandal’

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How Does Job Displacement Impact Heart Health?

How Does Job Displacement Impact Heart Health?

[We’re pleased to welcome Paul Devereux of University College Dublin. Paul recently published an article in ILR Review entitled “Losing Heart? The […]

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Behavior Routinely on Biomedicine’s Back Burner

Behavior Routinely on Biomedicine’s Back Burner

The challenge of infusing the social sciences into what are generally viewed as biomedical issues has been a long and difficult one, as the recent WHO report on Ebola demonstrates. Oddly, this lesson has been learned many times before, but keeps getting forgotten.

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Antibiotic Resistance – Missing the Point?

Antibiotic Resistance – Missing the Point?

There is no point in improving the innovation pipeline for antibiotics, argues Robert Dingwall, if the drugs that come out at the end all fall into the same chaotic patterns of use as today.

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Ebola: The Human Cost of Neglecting the Social Sciences

Ebola: The Human Cost of Neglecting the Social Sciences

There is a genuine cost from ignoring lessons from social science in the fight against Ebola. What’s even sadder — these lessons were taught in blood three decades ago in the fights against AIDS. Are we ready for the next malady?

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Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality

Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality

Angus Deaton is a social scientist and the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. His Princeton colleague, the philosopher Peter Singer, argues that aid is vital to combat the terrible mortality rates in some countries. Angus Deaton disagrees..

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Top Five: Social Marketing

Top Five: Social Marketing

Does compassion make dieters more likely to lose weight? What stops people from recycling? Could an anti-drinking Facebook campaign change a student’s […]

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College Drinking Prevention: A Social Marketing Approach

College Drinking Prevention: A Social Marketing Approach

Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Erika Beseler Thompson, assistant director for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Programs at North […]

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Work Stress and Health: New Journal of Management Collection

Work Stress and Health: New Journal of Management Collection

The Journal of Management (JOM) has a new Editor’s Choice collection on the topic of Work Stress and Health, with all articles […]

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