Big news in public health world: WashU starting new PH school (!) and @SandroGalea leaving as Dean of Boston University School of Public Health to lead WashU SPH (!)

And I agree with Dean Baccarelli here - Margaret E. Kruk has been stellar colleague. Sad to see her leave Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

WashU is lucky.

Pro-tip for writers: find your self an editor who gives it to you straight. Powerful weapon.

How does your home office impact your cognitive function? Our new study looks at just that.👇
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April showers bring May…showers
#BostonSpring

1983: “N02 levels inside the kitchens of 112 homes with gas stoves averaged about 50 ug/m3 higher, and bedroom levels were about 30 ug/m3 higher, than outdoor levels.”

THIS. “The [outside] air that we breathe is cleaner today than it was when I was a child, and that's a result of policy and fuel switching,” said Jackson, Stanford prof. “But we have ignored and not taken into account risks that people face indoors.”
wbur.org/news/2024/05/0…

The office isn't dead; bad offices are dead.

'BxP central business district portfolio of premier workplaces was 91.0% occupied and 92.8% leased'
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Study links gas stoves to 50,000 current cases of childhood asthma. Kari Nadeau, Chair of Env Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said, “the full impact may be closer to 200,000 cases,” when considering all pollutants emitted, including carbon monoxide.

wbur.org/news/2024/05/0…

PSA:

Important study results from the Apple Women's Health Study Health Study on the relationship between irregular menstrual cycles and cardiometabolic health.

Great thread of key findings👇

None of this is hard. None of it is expensive. The answer seems to be - over and over - that we just keep kids out of school INSTEAD OF FIXING OUR SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

(Baltimore closed some schools today - May 2 - because of heat)