public health

As a result of a recent Environmental Protection Agency regulation, there is a complete ban on using methylene chloride in non-laboratory settings, particularly in products like paint strippers, adhesives, degreasers and paints. Methylene chloride use is still permitted in lab settings under new…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy for a presentation featuring Sophia Chan, a trailblazing leader in public health. Chan will present “Nurse Leaders Influencing Health Policy: A Global Perspective”…

Researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) penned an article titled “Availability and Characteristics of Hemp-Derived Psychoactive Cannabis Products: A Pilot Study in Cleveland, Ohio,” which was recently published in the Ohio Journal of Public Health. The…

Rachel Pope (CWR ‘06; MED ‘07), who studied anthropology and international public health, recently invited Renée Sentilles, a professor within the Department of History, to speak on an episode about the history of hysteria on the Our Womanity podcast. Access the episode.

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences-based Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Learning Group for a meeting today (May 15) from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. The group shares and discusses articles…

Ian Neeland of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discussed tips for the prevention and management of heart failure on Cardi-OH Radio’s podcast, “Managing Heart Failure Risk in Your Patient With Hypertension and Diabetes.” In the podcast, Neeland shared tools to predict heart…

Lead exposure and poisoning from toxic paint remains endemic in low-income U.S. neighborhoods and threatens children’s health. Perhaps unsurprisingly, caregiving for lead exposure often falls on mothers. To broaden understanding of this gendered form of environmental injustice, the SAGES Program…

Building upon the book, Constitutional Contagion, COVID, the Courts and Public Health, this talk by Wendy E. Parmet will review the shift from deference to indifference during the pandemic and discuss its post-pandemic spillover, including in challenges to the authority of the FDA and EPA and…

More women—especially women of color—die in childbirth in the United States than any other wealthy nation, according to the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amid this growing maternal health crisis, American Delivery, a new documentary film premiering…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) for its next seminar series event Wednesday, Feb. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom. Liz Klein, chair and professor of health behavior and health promotion…