“Disorder breeds disorder,” read one of the slides that flashed on the screen at the Nov. 18 Public Health Forum, headlined: “Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention.”
A consortium led by the Boston University School of Public Health has been awarded a $1 million federal grant to test and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of Clostridium difficile (or “C.diff”) infections, a stubborn bacterial strain that most commonly affects older adults in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The U.S. Department of […]
American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Associate Executive Director and Director of the ADEA Center for Equity and Diversity Dr. Jeanne C. Sinkford received the 2009 Herbert W. Nickens Award on November 7 at the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) annual meeting. The Herbert W. Nickens Award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions […]
Wendy K. Mariner, professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at the Boston University School of Public Health has been appointed Edward R. Utley Professor in Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Mariner’s nomination to the endowed professorship by BUSPH Dean Robert Meenan was approved by University Provost David Campbell […]
The Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center (PHH-PRC) — a partnership between the BU School of Public Health, the Boston Housing Authority, the Boston Public Health Commission, and the Community Committee for Health Promotion — has been awarded a five-year grant that will allow it to continue innovative programs to improve the health […]
Rhoda M. Alani, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology, Herbert Mescon Chair and professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of the Department of Dermatology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She will assume these positions in January 2010. Prior to these appointments, Alani was a faculty […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) is now on Twitter. Follow us @budental. For those of you without a Twitter account you can view budental tweets at our public page, http://twitter.com/budental, without signing up. We also want to know if you use Twitter. Please answer our quick poll on the GSDM […]
While other cities have adopted bans on alcohol advertising on public transit systems, Boston’s MBTA is allowing youths to be exposed heavily to such ads, some of which are designed to entice young people to drink, a new study by a team of Boston University School of Public Health researchers shows. The study, published online […]
On Wednesday, November 18, join Debra Furr-Holden, assistant professor in the Mental Health Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as she presents a talk on “Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol, and Other Drug Prevention.” Her presentation will look at the geographic distribution and determinants of violence, alcohol and other drug problems, […]
On November 6, the Boston University chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) hosted a Success seminar given by Dr. Robert Madden titled, “Practice Management for Seniors.” Dr. Madden is an experienced family dentist with a DDS degree from the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry and a MBA from the University of Colorado. […]