Three faculty members of GSDM Department of Molecular & Cell Biology received supplements from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) NIH awarded supplements to current grants in order to accelerate the tempo of ongoing science. The faculty members, Professor and Director of the […]
Michael Holick, PhD, MD, director of the Bone Healthcare Clinic and the Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine BUSM recently received the 2009 NAMS/Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.Vitamin D Research Award from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). Holick was presented with the award during NAMS’ 20th annual meeting in […]
The medical campus is pleased to host events in conjunction with the all-University Alumni Weekend. Current students in the Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine and Public Health are invited to attend the following events free of charge during alumni weekend. Friday, October 23 WILLIAM J. BICKNELL LECTURESHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH “Is There Such a Thing […]
This past spring, the A(H1N1) influenza virus, also known as swine flu, emerged in Mexico and quickly spread worldwide so that by June 11, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan announced that the outbreak had officially reached global pandemic levels. On Wednesday, October 14, join BU School of Public Health faculty members David Hamer, David Ozonoff and […]
Op-Ed by BUSPH Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Professor appeared in NewsDay.com on October 3 OPINION: Don’t force medical pros to get H1N1 vaccine The New York State Health Commissioner’s new mandate that all health care workers be vaccinated against both the seasonal and the swine flu this fall could qualify as the major […]
The Boston University chapter of the Vietnamese Student Dental Association (BUVSDA) and dental hygiene students from The Forsyth Institute, in cooperation with Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Division of Community Health Programs (CHP), participated in the annual Rosie’s Place Wellness Fair on September 30. The fair was sponsored by Regis […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified deficiencies in the use of methods to prevent malaria in pregnant women in antenatal clinics and hospital delivery units in the state of Jharkhand, India. The BUSM study appears online in the Malaria Journal. Of the 2,386 pregnant women studied at the antenatal clinics over […]
The Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) has received a five-year continuation of grant funding award from the National Cancer Institute. The $9.1M award will cover years 16-20 of the largest follow-up study of the health of African-American women.
Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has received a two-year $1M challenge grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. According to FHS investigator Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, a professor of medicine at BUSM and professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, the challenge grant will be […]
Catharine Wang, an assistant professor in the School of Public Health department of community health sciences, has been awarded a 2009 Peter Paul Career Development Professorship by Boston University that she will use to pursue research related to translating genomic discoveries into programs that will improve human health.