Newsroom

Aug 4, 2022

Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped 14% from last week. Cases are undercounted, meaning that there’s not a clear picture of how many people are truly infected, but the downward trend is still notable said Talia Quandelacy, assistant professor of epidemiology.

Jul 28, 2022

Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations remain stuck in the same rough zone they’ve hovered in for the past six weeks. Normally, hospitalizations have started to drop about one week after cases began falling, said Talia Quandelacy, assistant professor of epidemiology.

Jul 21, 2022

Omicron variants continue to move through Colorado, keeping positivity rates high. With increasing use of at-home testing kits that often go unreported, Dean Jon Samet says interpreting the surveillance statistics has gotten more complicated.

Aug 1, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has rescaled time into Before COVID-19 (BC) and After COVID-19 (AC). In this calendar, we are now well into AC year three.

Jul 26, 2022

Last week, heat and climate change eclipsed the COVID-19 pandemic as the public health threat of the moment. Throughout the United Kingdom, high temperature records were broken and then re-broken.

Jul 18, 2022

Surveillance is a core tool of public health, fundamental to capturing the course of disease and the consequences of interventions. Since its start, we have tracked the COVID-19 pandemic with indicators of infection, disease, and death, while advances in data sciences supported the successful implementation of valuable, encompassing national and global databases.

Aug 8, 2022

Daniel Pastula, associate professor of epidemiology, gives an update on the outbreak, saying the emergency declaration mobilizes funding and highlights the urgency to get the virus under control.

Aug 2, 2022

Nathifa Miller, senior workforce development specialist for the Center for Public Health Practice, discusses the power of the personal assessment tool, reflecting on her own experiences as a leader in public health.

Jul 14, 2022

Susan Moore, research assistant professor in the Department of Community & Behavioral Health and associate director of the mHealth Impact Lab, is working with researchers across campuses to develop and test mobile technology that can improve patient care.

Aug 5, 2022

CU Cancer Center members and leaders, including ColoradoSPH Professional Research Assistant Andrea Dywer and Clinical Assistant Professor Patricia Valverde, were key contributors to an American Cancer Society supplement on patient navigation.

Jul 28, 2022

A new report from the National Academies, chaired by Ned Calonge, associate professor of epidemiology, detailed advice for clinicians on how to test, diagnose and treat the millions of Americans who may have been exposed to PFAS.

Jul 16, 2022

Pregnant women who were exposed to multiple phthalates during pregnancy had an increased risk of preterm birth, according to new research by the National Institutes of Health. The study's authors included Dana Dabelea, professor of epidemiology and director of the LEAD center.

Jul 13, 2022

ColoradoSPH at UNC alum Rudy Vargas is UNC’s newly named director of the César Chávez Cultural Center. Rudy shares the goal that drives him, the UNC experience that shaped him, the people who helped him along the way and his vision for the Center.

Jun 21, 2022

The LGBTQ+ Hub was created to connect and champion the CU Anschutz Medical Campus’ queer community. ColoradoSPH at UNC alum Steven Burton and ColoradoSPH at CU Anschutz alum Laurel Beaty reflect on their involvement with the hub and the positive impact it's had.

Jun 3, 2022

MPH candidate Hannah Craig and her sister, Alison, examined their hometown of Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of the Map the System competition. The Craigs won the first-ever CU-Anschutz challenge and will compete at the global level in mid-June.