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People, Place & Health Collective

·Feb 3, 2022

Are we in an “endemic” moment?

What the term really means. — One silver lining of 2020 for epidemiologists was a newfound public recognition of what we do, or even that we exist. No longer did we need to patiently explain — to friends, family, acquaintances, and strangers — that no, we aren’t skin doctors, and no, we aren’t medical doctors either…

Covid-19

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Are we in an “endemic” moment?
Are we in an “endemic” moment?
Covid-19

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People, Place & Health Collective

·Jul 16, 2021

Familiar Failures: The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics

What COVID-19 analogies to HIV get right and wrong — By: Abigail Cartus and William Goedel COVID-19 is the most severe and widespread pandemic to reach the United States in over 100 years. However, to make sense of COVID-19, many scientists, health officials, communicators, and laypeople have looked to the more recent past — specifically to the HIV pandemic, which…

Homepage

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Familiar Failures: The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics
Familiar Failures: The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics
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Dec 22, 2020

Education privatization advocates find an opportunity in the school reopening debate

While 2020 has been an unprecedented year in many ways, the COVID-19 catastrophe does have some precedent in recent American history. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast of Louisiana. Although the storm impacted only a small geographic region of the United States, the parallels to the present are…

Covid-19

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Covid-19

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Feb 10, 2020

What condition my condition is in

A few weekends ago, I gave into peer pressure and morbid curiosity and queued up Goop Lab: the Netflix series by Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s “lifestyle and e-commerce” company. I knew very little about Goop, except that they sell really expensive stuff, that they were sanctioned for making unsubstantiated medical claims…

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May 2, 2019

My name is Abby and I’m here today representing the Graduate Student Organizing Committee.

My name is Abby and I’m here today representing the Graduate Student Organizing Committee. I’m a second year PhD student in epidemiology, and I spend my spare time canvassing and organizing with the Pitt Grad Union because I believe that all graduate students work hard and deserve to have a…

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Apr 27, 2019

Elizabeth Warren’s maternal mortality proposal

This past week at the She the People Forum, Elizabeth Warren outlined a plan to address the United States’s maternal health crisis. It is clear that she has made an effort to understand this issue. Among the things her proposal gets right: the United States has the highest rate of…

Maternal Health

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Maternal Health

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