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COHERE program participants train to become community health workers.

Improving Access to Health Care with Community Health Workers

The COHERE program trains community members to engage with marginalized groups to improve access to care and other resources for wellbeing

September 11, 2024

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Health Care

How You Can Practice Pharmaceutical Safety

A School of Medicine professor explains the systems that regulate our medications and the role the public has in maintaining drug safety

August 21, 2024

Public Health

Gun Permits May Be More Effective than Background Checks Alone at Reducing Firearm Homicides

Tufts University School of Medicine analysis suggests universal background checks alone aren’t associated with significantly lower shooting death rates in the U...

August 1, 2024

Diana Tejera, a visiting medical student from the Universidad de Panamá Facultad de Medicina (UP), stands against a Tufts Medical Center doorway in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck.

Health

In Panama Exchange, Medical Students Learn Through a Global Health Lens

Both Tufts and University of Panama students reflect on the ways a global health exchange has helped shape their career paths

July 29, 2024

Public Health

Using Data to Humanize Health Care

Combining empathy with more-inclusive patient data could help eliminate widening health disparities, said statistician and author Talithia Williams

February 20, 2024

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Public Health

Reducing Inequitable Health Outcomes Requires Reducing Residential Segregation

Study by Tufts University researchers of U.S. metropolitan areas over 40 years shows strong links between residential segregation and disparities in early death...

November 28, 2023

Psychology

Exploring the Link Between Racism and Ill Health

Tufts psychology researchers get $2.7 million to map the pathways between experiencing racism-induced stress and developing disease

October 23, 2023

Infectious Disease

Mosquitoes: Fact and Fiction on Bite Prevention

Expert Sam R. Telford, III, from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine debunks myths and confirms the best advice for a mosquito-free summer.

August 10, 2023

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Addiction

Can Better Data Predict Opioid Overdoses and Slow Infectious Disease Rates?

Tufts University School of Medicine teams and collaborators are running multiple projects that seek to reduce overdoses and the spread of infections, such as...

August 8, 2023

Dental students wearing gowns and masks sit across from members of the Boston Living Center; one student is examining a patients's mouth.

Oral Health

Addressing the Oral Health Needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS

People living with. HIV/AIDS have unique oral health needs. Tufts dental students can now gain experience while providing this much-needed care.

May 31, 2023

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Improving Access to Health Care with Community Health Workers

How You Can Practice Pharmaceutical Safety

Gun Permits May Be More Effective than Background Checks Alone at Reducing Firearm Homicides

In Panama Exchange, Medical Students Learn Through a Global Health Lens

Using Data to Humanize Health Care

Reducing Inequitable Health Outcomes Requires Reducing Residential Segregation

Exploring the Link Between Racism and Ill Health

Mosquitoes: Fact and Fiction on Bite Prevention

Can Better Data Predict Opioid Overdoses and Slow Infectious Disease Rates?

Addressing the Oral Health Needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS

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