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Dec 17, 2020

Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Team members collaborated on this guest commentary discussing the impact of indoor dining on the transmission of COVID-19, as well as the impact of closures and restrictions on restaurants and small business survival.

Dec 15, 2020

The COVID-19 Modeling Team, including many ColoradoSPH researchers, are using mathematical modeling to understand when the COVID-19 pandemic began in Colorado.

Dec 2, 2020

ColoradoSPH at CSU faculty member Jude Bayham, PhD, uses SafeGraph data to explain how increased mobility has led to a rise in COVID-19 cases.

Dec 1, 2020

The Colorado AgrAbility Project is working with Lorann Stallones, PhD, and other ColoradoSPH at CSU faculty to address mental health concerns and suicide prevention in agriculture workers.

Dec 1, 2020

Tracy Nelson, PhD, director of the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU comments on the work of public health faculty at CSU both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nov 10, 2020

Jonathan Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health and CU Anschutz experts on pollution and climate control work to mitigate effects of the fire seasons after last year's record-breaking wildfire season.

Nov 9, 2020

ColoradoSPH Dean Jonathan Samet and environmental epidemiologist Dr. Tom Burke, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talk with Stephanie Desmon about a panel they recently led on airborne transmission of COVID-19.

Nov 5, 2020

Dr. Emmy Betz, associate professor of epidemiology at ColoradoSPH, spoke with U.S. News & World Report about the Colorado Firearm Safety Coalition's safe gun storage map and the importance of this work as gun sales, stress, and isolation are on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct 29, 2020

Viewers posed pandemic questions to public health, healthcare, and mental health experts in the Oct. 26 COVID-19 in Colorado webinar series. The series is hosted by the ColoradoSPH, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and Institute for Science & Policy.

Oct 26, 2020

ColoradoSPH Dean Jonathan Samet shares his insight on the airborne transmission of COVID-19 and the success of a recent workshop hosted by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on this important topic.

Oct 26, 2020

More than three-fourths of the country's states have higher cigarette taxes and prices than Colorado. Proposition EE would increase our tobacco taxes and use the revenues to restore public school funding, make free preschool more widely available, and support programs that prevent smoking and help smokers quit.

Sep 23, 2020

A gift to the school from ColoradoSPH Dean, Dr. Jonathan Samet, has created the Richard Hamman Lecture Series, named in honor of the school’s founding dean. The school welcomed the series' inaugural guest speaker, Dr. Alfred Sommer, Johns Hopkins Dean Emeritus.

Sep 16, 2020

Superspreader events — where a person with COVID-19 inadvertently infects multiple other people at the same time and place — are likely to increase as we head into fall and winter. Dr. Daniel Pastula, a neuro-infectious disease expert, offers tips to reduce transmission.

Sep 14, 2020

On September 14, Dr. Rachel Herlihy joined the Colorado School of Public Health and its Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Residency Program to deliver the annual "State of the State" update from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Aug 14, 2020

Olivia Zarella, a PRA and DrPH student in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, partners with the CU Environmental Health & Safety team to create a COVID-19 contact tracing program.

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Aug 5, 2020

Calling a recent Colorado-wide mask mandate “an important step” in the fight against SARS-CoV-2, ColoradoSPH Dean Samet and colleagues talked about the many challenges they face, including the politicization of masks, and how far science has come during a recent podcast.