Health Promotion and Policy news

Professor of Community Health Education Susan Shaw has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Distinguished Community Engagement Award for Research.

Public Health Sciences major Danish Humayun is among the 10 UMass students named winners of the 2025 Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employees of the Year Award.

The Office of Faculty Development has announced the awarding of mutual mentoring grant projects in 2025-26, including teams featuring SPHHS faculty members.

SPHHS researchers comment in multiple media outlets on health-related topics.

SPHHS summer enrichment program amplifies youth voices as they explore health inequities in Graffiti Stories Project now on exhibit at Springfield City Hall

Michal Horný will examine the impact of health care price transparency regulation through a 2-year, $300,000 grant from philanthropic foundation Arnold Ventures

Samantha Kloft has been invited to participate in the 2025 Young Scientists Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Three SPHHS graduate students and faculty members received funding to attend the 2025 Future World Changers of the Academy (FWCA) national conference.

Community Health Education doctoral candidate Saharra Dixon and colleagues have received Health Promotion Practice’s 2024 Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year .

SPHHS researchers comment in multiple media outlets on health-related topics.