Public Health COVID-19 Vaccines – The Latest Addition to Over a Century of Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren In May 2021, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (brand name Comirnaty) against COVID-19 was authorized for use…Cath AshleyJanuary 5, 2022
Public Health Colonialist Narratives of Projected COVID-19 Effects on Africa Harm the Health of All In April of 2021, the US approached 31.7 million total COVID-19 cases, making it the country with…Cath AshleyDecember 10, 2021
Public Health Effects of COVID-19 on existing equity gap for students of color More than 1.5 years since it began, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate the US…Cath AshleyNovember 27, 2021
Public Health COVID-19 Lessons from Hawaii’s 19th Century Pandemic Responses Americans have heard the phrase “unprecedented times” used countlessly to describe the past eight months…Cath AshleyDecember 21, 2020
Public Health Colon Cancer Rates Higher in Young Black Men Like Chadwick Boseman Actor Chadwick Boseman became a king in 2017 when he played the starring role of…Cath AshleyDecember 21, 2020
Public Health How Sewers May Help Contain COVID Several methods of containing the COVID-19 spread have made their way into the public eye:…Cath AshleyDecember 21, 2020
Public Health Remembering Southern African Public Health Activist David Sanders The public health community – and the rest of the world – suffered an immense…Cath AshleyApril 18, 2020
Public Health Cultural Awareness in the DRC Ebola Response The first result in a quick Google search for “Ebola” is the disease’s entry on the…Cath AshleyMarch 30, 2020
Public Health Chinese Medical Teams Continue Legacy of Maintaining Public Health throughout African Countries Collaboration between Ethiopia and China in maintaining the former country's public health is traced back…Cath AshleyNovember 11, 2019
Public Health Tanzanian newborn is the world’s first baby registered on the blockchain Readers may have heard of bitcoin, an unregulated cryptocurrency – or digital currency – created…Cath AshleyOctober 1, 2019
Public Health Facebook Engages in Suicide Risk Monitoring for its Users As of the end of 2018, the social media website Facebook had 2.32 billion monthly…Cath AshleyAugust 7, 2019
Public Health Researchers and Clergymen Unite to Fight the Spread of HIV and AIDS in African Communities Almost eleven years after Timothy Ray Brown became the first patient declared cleared of HIV/AIDS,…Cath AshleyAugust 7, 2019
Public Health Japanese Mothers Don’t Gain Enough Weight During Pregnancy In 2016, adult women over the age of 20 in the US were found to…Cath AshleyAugust 7, 2019
Public Health Street Symphony: Music as a Shout from the Homeless and Incarcerated Homelessness remains a severe public health issue in the U.S. despite the country reducing overall homelessness…Cath AshleyMarch 4, 2019
Public Health Cross-Sector Partnerships in Minnesota and Wisconsin – Connecting Health and Transportation The American Public Health Association (APHA) recently showcased how cross-sector partnerships between transportation and health…Cath AshleyMarch 2, 2019
Public Health A Call for Research into Commercial Video Games as Therapy If you are a gamer, chances are that your parents often scolded you for playing…Cath AshleyFebruary 11, 2019
Public Health The Role of Bots in the Spread of Public Health Information Anyone who has used social media is likely familiar with the CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA is…Cath AshleySeptember 5, 2018