In the 2025 issue of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy Health magazine, City Health, the work of ISPH is highlighted throughout.
In a student profile piece, Alexa D’Angelo talks about her path to public health and the groundbreaking work she has done with Christian Grov. Alexa said about working at IPSH, “A real strength of the institute is its ability to shift and respond to what’s going on in the world. There’s a lot of opportunity and flexibility to meet important research needs as they come up.” Alexa appears in this issue quite a bit, and there are two short pieces about our project Together 5,000, titled “In COVID’s wake, gauging attitudes toward a potential HIV vaccine” and “Study gauges police related stress among gay and bisexual men.”
Rachael Piltch-Loeb and Denis Nash talk about H5N1 and their concerns about the insufficient action by the federal government and our recommendations, including the project with ISPH Affiliated Investigator John Dennehy on wastewater surveillance through NY Heath and Hospitals.
Some of our extreme weather work is covered in the piece “Facing the Heat” including Nash Rochman and Elizabeth Kelvin’s project, with others, to support work to improve access to historical and forecasted climate data to better understand climate change’s impacts on infectious disease transmission. Also included is mention of two of our projects in connection with the global IeDEA cohort collaboration on extreme weather and care outcomes among people living with HIV.
Honoria Guarino and Pedro Mateu-Gelabert have led one of the first studies to employ phylogenetic analysis to help understand infection patterns among young people who inject drugs, which will provide crucial insights into the genetic linkages and transmission dynamics of HCV.
ISPH Affiliated investigator Ludwig Geistlinger, along with Chloe Mirzayi, Andreas Wokaty, Heidi Jones, Levi Waldron, and others wrote about BugSigDB, a comprehensive database of published microbial signatures, and that it captured patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbial signatures.
Elizabeth Kelvin with others, published a paper that found that high alcohol outlet concentration was strongly associated with violent crime, and that the relationship was stronger in neighborhoods that had a legacy of redlining.
