What impact did the Zika virus have on birth rate in Brazil?
Faculty member Marcia Castro is author on a study published in PNAS that finds that there was a significant decline in births in Brazil after the onset of the Zika virus.
Archive: Jun 2018
Study points to marked increase in marketing of sugar-sweetened beverages in grocery stores when food stamps are dispersed
Faculty member S V Subramanian, PhD, and former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Christina Roberto, are among the authors of a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that has received coverage in The Washington Post.
State laws permitting denial of services to same-sex couples linked to significant increase in mental distress among sexual minority adults
S. Bryn Austin, ScD, is an author on a paper published in JAMA Psychiatry that has found that state laws permitting the denial of services to sexual minorities (currently, 12 states have such laws) was associated with a 46% increase in the…
Long-term effects on sleep of older natural disaster victims
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, and Orfeu Buxton, PhD, are authors on a study that evaluated the sleep of those aged 65 and older who were impacted by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Two and a half years after the event, those who…