Research

The Advancing Research in Hearing Healthcare Lab is seeking participants aged 40 and older who own a hearing aid.

Andrew Lover appeared as a panelist on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) webinar series on arboviral disease.

Lisa Chasan-Taber has published a new textbook that presents a comprehensive framework for chairs who aim to cultivate and sustain research excellence.

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and colleagues found that socioeconomic inequalities in smoking persist despite decades of tobacco control policies.

The SITLess4Brain Lab seeks participants for a study to help researchers learn more about the relationship between sitting, physical activity and brain health.

A new study co-led by Cassandra Spracklen and Chi “Josh” Zhao has uncovered hundreds of genes and proteins likely to play a causal role in Type 2 diabetes.

 Meichen Wang was selected as a winner of the 2026 NIH Office of Disease Prevention Early Stage Investigator Lecture (ESIL) Award.

SPHHS researchers with the Center for Program Evaluation presented their evaluation of a Pioneer Valley public health department at the 2025 MHOA Conference.

Katherine Boyer and Jane Kent have received a five-year, $3.4 million NIH grant to support a comprehensive examination of walking gait and muscle activity.

Daniel López-Cevallos and a team of researchers have contributed a chapter to the textbook Health and Healthcare Systems: A Global View. 

Cassandra Spracklen has been appointed as the program committee chair for the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) 2026 Annual Meeting.

Seniors enrolled in the undergraduate public health sciences capstone course presented their semester’s work at the Capstone Poster Symposium held on Nov. 20.