Prison Nutrition: Cooking Up Options for Those Serving Time
Prison meals are nutritionally insufficient, which negatively impacts incarcerated individuals’ mental, physical, and behavioral health and well-being.
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Stopping Starts Trauma
New York City’s Stop, Question, and Frisk policy was linked with more frequent police stops and increased psychiatric emergency department visits among Black people.
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Khadijah Booth Watkins
Khadijah Booth Watkins, associate director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Residency Training Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, discusses some of the greatest threats to adolescent mental health and how we can build resilience among this population.
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Guns and Getting Your Houses in Order
In Philadelphia, neighborhoods with abandoned houses that underwent full remediation and clean up experienced lower instances of gun violence and weapons violations.
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Something In the Water
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance has emerged as an essential tool for determining where to allocate resources before a viral outbreak emerges.
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Community Elderly Support: Home Sweet Home
The CAPABLE program offers a coordinated community approach that allows elderly adults to age and thrive independently in the comfort of their own home.
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Stand By Me
LGBTQ+ individuals are more likely to intervene when they witness violence between partners than non-LGBTQ+ individuals.
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Weighing In on Maternal Health
Black mothers are giving birth to very low-weight children (under 5.8 lbs) nearly twice as often as White mothers, with the gap in low birthweight increasing as maternal age increases.
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Piercing Overdose Disparities
Overdose deaths among Black individuals have increased across the U.S., surpassing White deaths in 2020 for the first time in decades.
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