School of Public Health

  1. November 4, 2016

    U-M, MSU, Flint partners to help students explore risk factors for diabetes

    U-M will join Michigan State University and community partners in Flint to help young people and their families understand what factors put them at risk for type 2 diabetes.

  2. September 28, 2016

    NIH grant addresses environmental influences on child health

    U-M is part of a new research initiative to investigate how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development influences the health of children and adolescents. 

  3. May 21, 2016

    Incentives paid to improve health care have little impact in U.K.

    The world’s largest primary pay-for-performance program designed to improve patient health care and outcomes has failed to save additional lives, a U-M researcher says.

  4. May 19, 2016

    Childhood obesity research among U-M projects in West Michigan

    Research into childhood obesity among Head Start preschoolers is one of several projects U-M faculty and staff are engaged with in western Michigan.

  5. May 13, 2016

    Fear of violence leads to weight problems for some young women

    Young African-American women who live in fear of the violence in their neighborhoods are more likely to become obese when they reach their 20s and 30s, new research from U-M shows.

  6. May 10, 2016

    U-M to work on ways to share rare-disease treatment evidence

    A $900,000 funding award to the School of Public Health will allow researchers to develop methods to analyze treatment evidence for rare diseases. 

  7. May 5, 2016

    Incentive rewards some hospitals whose quality doesn’t measure up

    Incentives for hospitals that controlled spending have resulted in some poor performers receiving bonuses through a plan originally designed to improve quality, U-M research shows.

  8. March 14, 2016

    Research shows lead exposure can increase chance for obesity

    Exposure to lead during early development can alter the gut microbiota, increasing the chances for obesity in adulthood, researchers from the School of Public Health have found.

  9. February 22, 2016

    School of Public Health staffer to receive Candace J. Johnson award

    Sylvia Koski, assistant to the dean in the School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the 12th annual Candace J. Johnson Staff Award for Excellence.

  10. February 17, 2016

    New anti-biofilm compounds may aid fight against hospital infections

    U-M researchers have discovered a new class of anti-biofilm compounds that show promise against a drug-resistant bacterium commonly associated with hospital-acquired infections.