When Ryan Rego visited family in Pakistan as a child, he wondered why he had to be so careful about what he ate and drank. This unpleasant but effective introduction to health inequity led Rego to study gastric conditions and diseases.
In helping families complete recommended vaccination schedules, vaccine hesitancy leads to reductions in vaccine coverage and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease. In urban settings around the world, hesitancy trends should be followed closely.
Living through the pandemic has taught us some valuable lessons about how to live through uncertainty and prepare for it. Bhramar Mukherjee writes on the biggest lessons and what she thinks 2022 will bring.
Dr. Amy Pienta’s global work focuses on the demography of aging and retirement and health in later life, including a large research project that focuses on building data infrastructure to study populations of people living with HIV throughout the world.
Colleagues from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research present on the Chitwan Valley Family Study, a decades-long, comprehensive family panel study of individuals, households, and communities in the Chitwan Valley of Nepal.