HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women is 44 percent higher worldwide than among their male counterparts. Thus, this demographic has been the focal point for HIV prevention initiatives while adolescent boys and young men have been relatively overlooked. For a chapter of the textbook Adolescents, Young People and HIV Prevention in Eastern and Southern […]
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CHASING COVID Cohort Study Profile, Grand Rounds with Patrick Sullivan, new ISPH team members, and more
In a new perspective piece “Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence” published this week in the journal Nature, an international group of scientists including CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Associate Professor and ISPH investigator Levi Waldron raised concerns about the lack of transparency in publication of artificial intelligence algorithms […]
For immediate release. In a paper published in the journal Cancer Research, Associate Professor Levi Waldron, post-doctoral fellow Ludwig Geistlinger, and colleagues at the Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) provide new insights into how ovarian cancer grows and evolves within a person. The […]
Study examines the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across the US The Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) has received $3.4 million in emergency funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of […]
CHASING COVID Cohort study, T5K study profile, grand rounds with implementation science pioneer Enola Proctor, ISPH in the news, and more
The HIV epidemic in the United States disproportionately affects younger gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM). Though Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is effective at reducing new HIV infections, fewer than ten percent of people eligible for PrEP are estimated to be using it.1 In order to better understand how to design […]
For immediate release. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) and the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) have launched the Communities, Households and SARS/COV-2 Epidemiology (CHASING) COVID study. The study team moved quickly to enroll a prospective cohort of >7,000 […]
For immediate release. The role of primary care physicians continues to expand to meet the increasing demand for more comprehensive and complex services. Given the recent threats to Title X funding and the 2019 federal appeals court decision to uphold the “domestic gag rule,” implementation of reproductive health services in the primary care setting is […]
For immediate release. Assistant Professor Hongbin Zhang and Associate Professor Elizabeth Kelvin, investigators with the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Public Health at CUNY SPH, were awarded an R03 grant from the National Institutes of Health to work with collaborators from Columbia University and University of Cuenca, Ecuador, to tackle the difficult disease of neurocysticercosis (NC). Despite accumulating evidence […]