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Oct 23, 2020

As hospitalizations from SARS-CoV-2 are rapidly increasing across the state, the modeling report from the ColoradoSPH-led team uses a new “transmission control” indicator that captures ALL behavioral and policy changes in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Oct 6, 2020

The latest modeling report from the ColoradoSPH-led team evaluates what might happen if people have more social contact than usual beginning the Friday before Thanksgiving and lasting through the new year. With this assumption, an increase in cases during and after the holidays as projected could be substantial.

Sep 16, 2020

The latest modeling report from the ColoradoSPH-led team indicates the spread of SARS-CoV-2 was reduced for much of July and August, leading to declines in hospitalizations and infections. However, in recent weeks, the estimated effective reproductive number has increased while hospitalizations have plateaued.

Oct 26, 2020

Quoting George Box, the British statistician once again: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” The most recent updating of the core SEIR model (Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered) incorporates a single variable, termed “transmission control,” to capture success in reducing infectious contacts among Coloradans.

Oct 19, 2020

Another worrisome week: the pandemic is surging across the United States and Europe; the Johnson and Johnson vaccine trial was halted because of a possible adverse event in a participant; Eli Lilly’s trial of a monoclonal antibody therapy was paused because of safety concerns; and remdesivir was found to be ineffective.

Oct 12, 2020

Over the last week, there were further revelations about meddling by the Administration in public health measures proposed by the CDC, and specifically a requirement for universal wearing of masks in public commercial transportation, including airplanes.

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.

Oct 23, 2020

As hospitalizations from SARS-CoV-2 are rapidly increasing across the state, the modeling report from the ColoradoSPH-led team uses a new “transmission control” indicator that captures ALL behavioral and policy changes in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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.

Oct 9, 2020

Immediate actions are needed to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change that helps fuel wildfires, and ultimately affects human physical and psychological health according to a new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sep 18, 2020

In a report published in the highly influential American Journal of Bioethics, CU researchers describe a student health survey team that discovered a Colorado school with extremely high rates of suicide risk, and a lack of ethical guidance on whether or how to intervene.

Aug 28, 2020

A recent survey conducted by Colorado researchers sheds light on how severely COVID-19 is affecting the region’s most economically vulnerable families — and the most effective ways for them to cope with it.

Oct 15, 2020

While watching events unfold across the country over recent months, Professor Dawn Comstock was left feeling like she needed to do something tangible to address the ongoing systemic racial and ethic disparities. That’s when she decided to help establish a new scholarship fund to accelerate ColoradoSPH's efforts to increase the diversity and inclusive excellence of the school’s student body.

Sep 10, 2020

ColoardoSPH at UNC alumna Kristin Christensen, MPH '18, talked with her hometown newspaper about her experiences working for the Peace Corps in Madagascar, and having to be evacuated as COVID-19 began to spread worldwide in early 2020.

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.