STAT NEWS - Pitt Public Health Dean DONALD S. BURKE was asked to weigh in on the problem of projected opioid deaths. “Are we doing enough of what we think works — prescription drug monitoring programs, medication-assisted treatment, naloxone? And are we matching the societal costs with a like expenditure in prevention?”
REUTERS - “When women lose access to health insurance, they may be less likely to receive recommended mammograms and have access to regular primary care services that would facilitate an early diagnosis of cancer,” said HPM’s LINDSAY SABIK, senior author of the study published Monday in the journal Cancer .... “A growing body of evidence shows that health insurance coverage, and Medicaid in particular, is associated with having a usual source of...
Watch a short video of highlights from Dean Burke’s address at the ASPPH Opioid Briefing to Congress last Monday. He was one of five public health deans invited by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health to present expert testimony about the drastic need for more research data in confronting the abuse epidemic.
On June 24, 2017, HPM’s MARIAN JARLENSKI was interviewed during AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting in New Orleans. She was there to present about her maternal and child research on Medicaid’s funding of medically-necessary abortion and the resulting 15 percent risk reduction in severe maternal morbidity.
E&E NEWS - The debate has gone on for some time over whether scientists should simply lay out their information and let politicians decide how to use it or advocate for a specific policies. Emeritus EOH professor and emeritus dean BERNARD GOLDSTEIN, who also served as assistant administrator for research in the Reagan administration says, “I find it very situational,” Goldstein said. He added that recent political attacks on science and particula...
Bernstein addresses Congressional roundatble on climate change (video)
Bernstein addresses Congressional roundatble on climate change (video)
U.S. CONGRESS - On June 20, 2017, emeritus dean and professor BERNARD GOLDSTEIN called on lawmakers to support a research agenda to mitigate global climate change during special D.C. hearing. As an expert environmental toxicologist, he emphasized the need to address conservatives’ reasons for not tr... (06/21/2017)
Cut off: A bereft nervous system may eat away at the will to live
Cut off: A bereft nervous system may eat away at the will to live
PITTMED MAGAZINE - Someone once told Eve, a teen with severe intractable depression, "You just aren’t working hard enough in therapy." And then her doctor, HuGen’s LISA PAN—along with fellow Human Genetics faculty member DAVID FINEGOLD—learned that she can’t seem to make critical neurotransmitters. ... (06/20/2017)
More data needed in fight against opioids use, Burke says
More data needed in fight against opioids use, Burke says
PITTSBURG POST-GAZETTE - The numbers are staggering, and yet DONALD S. BURKE wants more of them. He believes good data is essential in fighting the opioid crisis that is growing exponentially across the country — and nowhere faster than the Appalachian region that includes Western Pennsylvania. Burk... (06/20/2017)
Dean Burke addresses congressional hearing on the opioid epidemic
Dean Burke addresses congressional hearing on the opioid epidemic
On Monday, June 19, 2017, Dean Burke joined four other public health deans from Appalachian universities to speak at a U.S. congressional hearing on the national opioid epidemic. Addressing the standing-room-only crowd, he spoke about the epidemiology of the crisis and the need for better info on co... (06/19/2017)
HPM’s Jarlenski on arguments, evidence, and abortion policy
HPM’s Jarlenski on arguments, evidence, and abortion policy
PUBLIC HEALTH POST - In a public health article, HPM’s MARIAN JARLENSKI says fake scientific arguments should not shape abortion law. She asks “why it is that so much un-scientific medical guidance is being codified into state statutes. Six state laws require that women seeking an abortion be counse... (06/19/2017)
Burke keynotes for Erie’s opioid crisis psychiatry conference
Burke keynotes for Erie’s opioid crisis psychiatry conference
GO ERIE - A presentation and discussion of Erie’s opioid epidemic will highlight Thursday’s Challenges & Innovations in Rural Psychiatry Conference at the Bayfront Convention Center, sponsored by Stairways Behavioral Health. DONALD BURKE, dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Publi... (06/19/2017)
Gellad says Medicare could learn a thing or two from the VA
Gellad says Medicare could learn a thing or two from the VA
WALL STREET JOURNAL - In a piece by HPM's WALID GELLAD, he says, "Everyone agrees prescription drugs are too expensive, but what to do about it? One popular idea—supported in the past by President Trump, and by 80% of the public in some polls—is for Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices directly.... (06/14/2017)
Facts alone won’t convince people to vaccinate, but FRED can
Facts alone won’t convince people to vaccinate, but FRED can
ESPN - There was something about showing a movie of your hometown that people relate to,” said DON BURKE, dean of Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health. It was his idea to break the data modeling down by county.The FRED platform allowed researchers to build a simulation of human interaction dynami... (06/12/2017)
Buchanich and Burke on fatal ODs across Pa.
Buchanich and Burke on fatal ODs across Pa.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER - “For the first time in Allegheny County, fentanyl was found in more people than heroin,” said Pitt Public Health epidemiologist JEANINE BUCHANICH. There appear to be two distinct epidemics in Pennsylvania, said DONALD BURKE. Southeastern Pennsylvania historically ha... (06/08/2017)
King finds 1 in 5 surgical weight-loss patients take preseription opioids
King finds 1 in 5 surgical weight-loss patients take preseription opioids
UPI - Research led by EPI's WENDY KING found that while the number of adults with severe obesity using prescription opioids initially declines in the months after bariatric surgery, it eventually increases to surpass pre-surgery rates. "Almost half of patients reporting opioid use at the time of sur... (06/05/2017)
Fabisiak and Brink: Air pollution increases regional health risks
Fabisiak and Brink: Air pollution increases regional health risks
PITTSBURGH TODAY - “PM2.5 is probably the chief concern for the region, mainly because of its contribution from a source as big as the Clairton plant has an effect over a fairly large area,” said EOH associate prof JAMES FABISIAK.... “Everything that’s a risk factor for bad health is showing up high... (06/01/2017)
Zimmerman, Nowalk, Hawk, and Ricci receive Adult Immunization Publication Award
Zimmerman, Nowalk, Hawk, and Ricci receive Adult Immunization Publication Award
Kudos to (photo front, left to right) alumna PATRICIA NOWALK (EPI '81, ’93) and BCHS faculty MARY HAWK, ED RICCI, and (back) RICHARD ZIMMERMAN, who received the Immunization Publication Excellence Award presented during the National Adult Influenza Immunization Summit, May 10, 2017, in Atlanta, Geor... (06/01/2017)
Human genetics research to understand craniofacial birth defects
Human genetics research to understand craniofacial birth defects
A facial shape genetics paper from a research team including HUGEN's JOHN SHAFFER, ELEANOR FEINGOLD, and student EKATERINA ORLOVA, was among the top 50 most downloaded "PLoS Genetics" open-access journal papers in 2016. (05/30/2017)
IDM's Gupta team develops improved test to detect hidden HIV virus
IDM's Gupta team develops improved test to detect hidden HIV virus
TRIBUNE REVIEW - “This will be extremely useful for clinical trials and people doing the basic science on the latency,” said PHALGUNI GUPTA, senior author and IDM vice-chair. In addition to being more sensitive, the new test is cheaper, easier, faster, and requires less blood than the test commonly ... (05/29/2017)
Van Panhuis explains why gaps in immunization coverage are troubling
Van Panhuis explains why gaps in immunization coverage are troubling
STAR TRIBUNE - “That is the herd immunity,” said WILBERT VAN PANUIS, Pitt Public Health epidemiologist and affiliated faculty of the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory. Measles is less likely to turn into an outbreak if at least 95 percent of the population has immunity protection. ldquo;If the numbe... (05/28/2017)
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