CTMH affiliate Dr. Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, associate director of health at the Boston University Initiative on Cities and an associate research professor in the department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, with Danielle Mulligan, associate director of the BU Initiative on Cities, co-authored an op-ed on the youth mental health crisis. Published in the […]
Jaimie Gradus, CTMH Director, and Patricia Janulewicz Lloyd, associate professor of environmental health have been appointed to serve on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee to investigate potential associations between veterans’ military service exposure to toxic substances and mental health outcomes. More information available from SPH News.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded a two-year grant to Boston University School of Public Health to investigate the impact of extreme heat on mental health among uninsured and publicly insured individuals in the City of Boston. Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and the principal investigator, will lead […]
CTMH researchers recently published a study titled “The impact of relationship type and closeness on mental health following suicide loss”. This study investigates how relationship type and closeness levels impact a person’s bereavement reaction when someone they know dies by suicide. They found that family status, friend status, and closeness were all associated with mental […]
Dr. Anthony Rosellini and Dr. Jaimie Gradus have been awarded an R01 from NIMH to study the health impacts of suicide loss among first degree relatives and unrelated cohabitants. This novel study will use Danish national registry data to document the short- and long-term mental and physical health outcomes and comorbidities among suicide loss survivors […]
Dr. Noel Vest, assistant professor of Community Health Sciences, discusses his path to his current research and how he envisions BU as a national leader in college-in-prison programming and collegiate recovery. In this interview, Dr. Vest describes the transformative potential of these initiatives, aiming to make a lasting impact on education, rehabilitation, and community building. […]
BUSPH researchers partner with the national nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety to assess the costs and impacts associated with community violence interventions. The nonprofit is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the US and has already performed comprehensive research documenting the social and economic costs of gun violence. BUSPH faculty and students have built […]
BUSPH researchers have recently published a new analysis examining the cognitive effects of toxic chemical exposures in Gulf War veterans in the journal Environmental Health. The results of their analyses indicate that about one-third of these veterans still experience Gulf War Illness (GWI) symptoms. The findings demonstrate that Gulf War veterans continue to struggle with […]
A new study published in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology indicates that global mental health declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with food insecurity and job loss playing major roles. The study found an association between economic factors, such as unemployment and food insecurity, and the worsening mental health of individuals worldwide. Lead […]