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"We tend not to acknowledge that the public health and health care systems were set up at a time when Jim Crow—legal segregation—was at its strongest in this country, and they were not designed to treat people equally. My goal is to move race and racism from the margins of the discussion about health disparities to the center."
"Pharmaceutical interventions, particularly vaccination, have been the principal public health method of preventing and controlling seasonal influenza...All this has changed with the threat of an influenza pandemic...It has not yet been possible to produce a vaccine which can convincingly produce protection...This leaves non pharmaceutical interventions (e.g. face masks and hand hygiene) as the most attractive way to mitigate the impact of a disastrous pandemic." More on Aiello's 2007 study (with Arnold Monto) on flu prevention in UM residence halls.
"All agencies having anything to do with health are on the bandwagon about obesity. The question is, what are we going to do about it? One thing public health can do is to work with the food industry on portion sizes. We have to look at the interaction between public health and private businesses. We can also work with schools to offer healthy food in cafeterias and vending machines and to provide daily physical education for all students."
"At the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, we put a heavy emphasis on mentorship--matching students with faculty willing to spend quality time with them. For instance, I like to have my mentees go with me to meetings as a way to integrate them into the research team; they also learn to edit papers and critique presentations."
"We're trying to understand the epidemiology of everyday life and how that contributes to patterns of population health and the great health divides in our society. On an unprecedented scale, we are bringing together an interdisciplinary group to help us bridge the biological and the social--a group representing public health, public policy, biology, genetics, medicine, urban planning, sociology, political science, statistics, and education."
"One of the joys of being a statistician is the ability to make contributions in many scientific fields. Besides pursuing my methodological research in incomplete data and survey research, I have had the opportunity to work on issues in public health, population studies, economics, environmental research, cancer research, psychology and psychiatry, to name a few."
"It was barely a decade ago that people were studying one gene at a time, one or two variations at a time. We're in the midst of a revolution. The barriers to research that faced us in the last 20 years are just evaporating."
"The Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured seeks to contribute to the political debate on the uninsured in a truly meaningful way. We’re working to improve our understanding of the interplay between labor force dynamics, health insurance coverage, and markets in general."
"With the micro gas chromatograph (GC) project, we're trying to take an instrument the size of a small refrigerator and reduce it to the size of a sugar cube. Workers in high-risk occupations would be able to wear these wireless micro-GCs as a means of assessing and minimizing exposures to hazardous materials. The device also has important implications for homeland security."
"The anti-smoking campaign of the past four decades is an unparalleled public health accomplishment, literally cutting in half the number of smokers. Well over two million premature deaths have been avoided as a consequence, with each of these beneficiaries of the national antismoking campaign gaining an average of 15 to 20 years of life expectancy. But with 45 to 50 million adults continuing to smoke and 450,000 people dying each year from diseases caused by cigarettes, smoking remains by far the nation's leading preventable cause of premature death and illness. Tobacco control policies demonstrated to be effective and cost-effective need to be pursued aggressively at both the state and federal level."
"Do we have a long way to go in women’s health? You bet. But has there been movement? Yes. Has there been acknowledgement of the work that has been done previously as being creditable? Yes. It is our students who will become the greatest advocates of new perspectives in the field. It’s the students who have the fire. They’re the ones that want to go out there and change the world."
"I'm interested in what conditions predispose children to environmental risks, as well as how and why children in developing countries respond differently to these risk factors. I was very happy to see the World Health Organization actually take the position that protecting children from environment-related illnesses is a critical element of sustainable development." |
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Name: Derek Griffith, assistant research scientist 
Name: Allison Aiello, assistant professor
Name: Anita Sandretto, lecturer and Human Nutrition program director 
Name: Harold W. "Woody" Neighbors, associate professor
Name: George Kaplan, professor
Name: Roderick Little, Richard D.Remington Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
Name: Sharon Kardia, associate professor
Name: Catherine McLaughlin, professor
Name: Ted Zellers, professor 
Name: Michael Boehnke, professor
Name: Kenneth Warner, SPH dean and Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health
Name: MaryFran Sowers, professor
Name: Jerome Nriagu, professor
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