All Posts: faculty research
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Rise in Claim Denial Rates for Cancer-Related Advanced Genetic Testing
A newly published analysis by researchers at the School of Health and colleagues has found that both the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for cancer and the rate…
April 18, 2025
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Should You Take Antibiotics for a Sinus Infection? Students Are Working To Find Out
In the largest-of-its-kind study, Dan Merenstein, MD, professor in the School of Medicine and School of Health, and co-investigator Nawar Shara of MedStar Health, are…
April 14, 2025
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Whiteness Explored as a Fundamental Determinant of Health in Rural America
For almost two decades, the mortality rate for rural residents in the United States has been higher than their urban counterparts, and the difference in the rate has only…
December 5, 2024
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Strengthening Global Regulatory Capacity for Equitable Access to Vaccines in Public Health Emergencies
Three high-impact steps could be taken by global health leaders to reshape the global regulatory framework and help address the pressing need for equitable access to diagnostics,…
August 3, 2024
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Cognitive Declines Preceding Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Lead to Credit Card, Mortgage Delinquency
In the years prior to an Alzheimer’s disease or other memory disorder diagnosis, credit scores begin to weaken and payment delinquency begins to increase, concludes new…
May 31, 2024
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Bouey Publishes New Report on U.S.-China Collaboration on HIV/AIDS
A new report “U.S.-China Collaboration on HIV/AIDS: Perspectives on Global Health Collaborations amid Geopolitical Changes,” written by Jennifer Bouey, MD, PhD, examines the…
February 26, 2024
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School of Health’s Jennifer Bouey, PhD, Leads Database Project Tracking China’s Export of AI
Global health professor and epidemiologist Jennifer Bouey, PhD, in collaboration with the RAND Corporation and AidData Research Lab, has published a database and two reports…
December 20, 2023
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Working in Extreme Heat: Deaths Underestimated and Protections Fall Short
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, two occupational health experts outline three necessary steps to close gaps in the management of workers impacted by extreme heat…
August 30, 2023
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Drinking Kombucha May Reduce Blood Sugar Levels in People with Type 2 Diabetes
People with Type 2 diabetes who drank the fermented tea drink kombucha for four weeks had lower fasting blood glucose levels compared to when they consumed a similar-tasting…
August 1, 2023
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Shared Decision-Making Lowers Health Care Expenditures
A study led by Timothy T. Brown, of UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and Vanessa B. Hurley, MPH, PhD, assistant professor at Georgetown University School of Health, found…
June 13, 2023