Nigel James, assistant professor of health studies, was awarded the 2025 American Public Health Association Cancer Forum Global Health Award for “Transforming Detection: Assessing the Impact of Task Shifting in Nurse-Led Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Ghana.” James received the highest award in the global health category.
Rick Mayes, professor of health policy, presented his research on Medicare policy at the 2025 American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., and for the Better Healthcare Policy Group at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health.
Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, published “Newborn screening for sickle cell disease in Caluquembe, southwestern Angola, 2024–2025” in PLoS One.
Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, is the lead author of "An updated definition of global health," published in Global Heath Research and Policy.
Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, published three Global Burden of Disease papers in The Lancet, one on demographics, one on mortality, and one on the epidemiology of nonfatal health conditions.
Jeremy Hoffman, adjunct lecturer of health studies, was selected as a 2025 honoree for the de Beaumont Foundation’s 40 Under 40 in Public Health. The program is the first of its kind to recognize and elevate leaders changing the face of public health in creative and innovative ways.
Rick Mayes, professor of health policy, chaired a research panel on "Privatization, Regulation, and Health Care Markets," and shared his research on a "Medicare at 60" panel at the 2025 American Political Science Association Conference.
Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, was selected to serve as a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth Systems Governance Project of Future Earth that is hosted by Uppsala University in Sweden.
Margaret Tait, assistant professor of health studies, presented her research "Considering Catholic Health Care: Exploring Perceptions of Trust and Discrimination in Religiously Affiliated Health Systems" at the 2025 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences Conference.
Margaret Tait, assistant professor of health studies, published "News media coverage of the U.S. social safety net: themes and gaps from a scoping review" in BMC Public Health.
Nigel James, assistant professor of health studies, published “Tackling the (un)affordability of medicines for cardiometabolic risk factors worldwide: a call to action” in BMJ Global Health.
Courtney Blondino, assistant professor of health studies, published “Generational Differences in Tobacco Use Patterns: Results from Wave 6 (2021) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (United States)” in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs with students Fernanda Moya Quezada, ‘26, and Caitlyn Hall, ‘26.
