If Trump's assertion of ableism is successful here, that won't be the end of it.

Policy Points In the United States, social policies at the federal, state, and local levels affect population health. The country is undergoing major changes in its social policies and intergover...

Our programs are designed to assist when women want to restrict their childbearing but offer no support when women want to have children.

Disability risks among midlife Latino adults in the United States are strongly patterned along axes of stratification such as nativity and citizenship status. Another increasingly salient axis of…

Background Achieving timely childhood vaccination is a challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). A three-month intervention called 10 + 10 + 30 involved 10-minute serial radio drama on va...

Prescription medication misuse is a long-term population health problem in the United States. This data slice uses data from the National Wellbeing Survey (N=32,789, 2021–2025) of U.S. adults ages 18–...

The Maxwell sociologist has been appointed to lead a flagship American Sociological Association publication.

South Asian immigrants are often grouped together in U.S. health data, masking significant differences in health outcomes across subgroups. This brief uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS...

A deadly Ebola outbreak is continuing to spread across the Democratic Republic of the Congo with global health officials warning "we're still behind."

A Champion for Inclusion: Katherine McDonald Honored by National Disability Organization

Background: Anecdotal evidence suggests that an increasing number of people are turning to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools or artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted chatbots to discuss...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the flow of drugs into the U.S. by sea has been nearly eradicated under his administration.

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A Syracuse University professor has created a free tool to help researchers handle complex identity responses with greater care and transparency in surveys.

Home births that happen without planning or medical support (i.e., unintended home births) carry a higher likelihood of adverse outcomes, such as low birth weight, preterm birth, and hypothermia. This...

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) promises billions in new farm subsidies, but most of that money won’t go to the farmers who need it most. This brief describes how the OBBB’s changes to agricultural ...

Political divisions shaped public health responses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with conservatives expressing higher vaccine hesitancy than liberals. But does where conservatives live matter? Thi...

Lawmakers want to expand the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which for three decades has rewarded companies that hire people with barriers to employment. New research shows it doesn’t work.

The fellowship supports scholarly work focused on men’s mental health and related issues.

Latino adults in the United States experience a greater burden of disability than non-Latino White adults. This brief summarizes findings from a study using data from the 2000-2016 American Community…

Associate Professor Rebecca Ortiz surveyed young adults about AI companions and found both potential benefits and troubling behaviors with the technology.

Are the Kids Alright? Maxwell Expert Panel Examines Youth Mental Health

Background Wastewater–based epidemiology (WBE) has the potential to produce reliable, efficient, and non-invasive measures of current psychoactive drug use. The aim of this study was to assess the fea...

Secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins recently suggested Americans can get the nutrition they need on $3 meals. Here’s what happened when I tried to follow her plan.

The agency's food insecurity survey was pointless "liberal fodder," a spokesperson said.

Agricultural land in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition. Seventy percent of land is expected to change hands in the next 20 years, with many existing farmers ready to…

Colleen Heflin Examines Impact of Changes to Virginia’s Child Care Subsidy Program

On the December edition of Connect NY, David Lombardo covers food insecurity in New York State

Discrimination is a serious challenge for refugees trying to rebuild their lives in new countries. This data slice presents findings from the 2022 Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR), a nationally represe...

Federal agents have arrested more than 100 people in Vermont over the last 10 months. Those arrests have heightened fears in tight-knit communities across the state. Vermont Public’s Peter Hirschfeld ...

Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.

Bernard Appiah Receives K. Everett M. Rogers Award for Advancing Public Health Communication

"The delay in SNAP benefits during the shutdown was unprecedented and affected millions of Americans," Morrissey told Newsweek.

Mental health challenges are common among adolescents in the United States. This brief summarizes findings from a study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health...

Bernard Appiah Receives K. Everett M. Rogers Award for Advancing Public Health Communication