Climate Change and Surgery

Climate Change and Surgery March 25, 2022 “Hospitals play a major part in GHG [Green House Gas] emissions, but one space contributes more significantly than any other: the operating room.” In a recent article in Think Global Health, researchers from the Center for Surgery and Public Health and the Program for Global Surgery and Social […]

Bringing Stop the Bleed to Ukraine

CSPH researchers translate Stop the Bleed training into Ukrainian March 22, 2022 Originally from Ukraine, Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc, a colorectal surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Public Health, has partnered with emergency medicine physician Eric Goralnick, MD, MS, to film an instructional video on the use of tourniquets in Ukrainian. Dr. Melnitchouk has […]

CMS and the FDA can fix post-market surveillance for implantable devices

CMS and the FDA can fix post-market surveillance for implantable devices April 23, 2021 In their Health Affairs Blog, Dan C. Krupka, PhD, of Twin Peaks Group; Natalia A. Wilson, MD, MPH, of Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic School of Medicine; and CSPH researchers Joel Weissman, PhD, and Amanda J. Reich, PhD, MPH examine the […]

Lag time between state-level policy interventions and change in COVID-19 outcomes

Lag time between state-level policy interventions and change in COVID-19 outcomes July 9, 2021 A new study from researchers, including CSPH faculty Tanujit Dey, PhD, provides insights into the lag time between state-level interventions and change in COVID-19 outcome trajectory in the United States. Particularly, the study finds that there is a change in COVID-19 outcomes approximately 10-14 […]

Women Surgeons at Greater Risk of Pregnancy Loss

Women Surgeons at Greater Risk of Pregnancy Loss There’s a bravado that goes along with the surgical personality. There’s a culture of not asking for help, but this tells us there’s a health risk in it. Erika Rangel, MD, MS July 28, 2021 In an article in the New York Times, a study shows that women […]