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HIV is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, with 1.3 million people contracting HIV every year and 629,000 people dying of the disease. HIV is both preventable and treatable, and governments and nonprofits have taken significant...

For my final project, I knew that I wanted to focus on a health problem in Jamaica, the country where my parents and family came from, initially choosing to research acral lentiginous melanoma. However, while researching acral lentiginous melanoma, I kept...

Homelessness is a major public health issue in the United States. Homeless individuals are at critically higher risk for health issues such as malnutrition, HIV, violence/rape, substance abuse disorder, and mental illnesses such as anxiety/depression...

This microsite is intended to inform Bronx residents, many of whom have lived in the Bronx for most of their lives, of the disproportionate rates of asthma among children in the borough on both the city-wide and national levels. New York City in...

The climate crisis is a major interdisciplinary global challenge with severe impacts on human health. One primary reason people do not always act in the most environmentally conscious ways, particularly here in the U.S., is because they do not feel that...

The mental health crisis and suicide epidemic in America is a major public health challenge in our country and has substantial impacts, especially among adolescents and young adults. Close to 50 percent of American adolescents aged 13-18 have had a mental...

The "It's Okay" campaign aims to reduce the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS, particularly among adolescent men who have sex with men (MSM) in Thailand. Stigma often is the only barrier that keeps Thai individuals from utilizing the excellent HIV services...

Artist Julian Handler (2022) Caption The motivation for my product came from my desire to respond to the opioid epidemic, fueled by the recent death of one of my friends from elementary school by an opioid overdose. I wanted to focus my product on...

Artist Imani Fonfield (2022) Caption As of April 2022, there have been approximately 984,000 deaths in the United States due to COVID-19; underneath this stark statistic, almost 1 out of every 450 children under the age of 18 in the United States lost a...

In the United States and many other nations around the world, societies are struggling with the double burden of malnutrition: the combination of undernutrition with overweight and obesity. Hidden hunger refers to malnutrition due to insufficient...