Research

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.

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

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.

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.

Kameron Wong and Adam Lachapelle received awards at the annual meeting of the Northeast Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (NESOT) held on October 24, 2025.

Song Liang co-organized a National Science Foundation-funded workshop on modeling infectious disease transmission and control held in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Leontine Alkema is among the 6 UMass Amherst researchers who have been recognized as among the world’s most highly cited researchers in 2025.