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In a new study published in Environmental Research Letters, an international team of investigators led by Professor Amir Sapkota offered a way to predict the risk of deadly diarrhea outbreaks using AI modeling, giving public health systems weeks or even months to prepare and to save lives.

Climate change-related extreme weather, such as massive flooding and prolonged drought, often result in dangerous outbreaks of diarrheal diseases particularly in less developed countries, where diarrheal diseases is the third leading cause of death among young children. Now a study out Oct.

Watch Kiersten Janjigian discussing her basketball experiment on the School of Public Health's Instagram page.

Climate change is driving more extreme heat and more air pollution from wildfires, each of which put human health at risk.

A few weeks from a contentious election that is raising as many emotions as policy points, important issues affecting families are on state ballots across the country as well as in presidential candidates’ platforms.

Health care workers – including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and dentists – make up about 14% of U.S. workers, about 22 million people, per the U.S. Census. Yet health care workers are 12-23% less likely to vote than the general population, according to research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.