CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy

CUNY SPH Distinguished Professor and epidemiologist Denis Nash weighed in on President's Donald Trump's claims last Sunday that he was no longer infectious and is now immune to the COVID-19 virus on Al Jazeera English. "It seems that the President's physician and the White House in general is playing fast and loose with some of the the expert guidance on how to protect the welfare of those in the President's inner circle and others that he might come into close contact with."

CUNY is expanding its mental health services with face-to-face online counseling and other remote wellness services at a time when increasing numbers of students across the country are struggling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the HealthyCUNY #COVID19 student survey conducted last spring, 40 percent of respondents reported feeling nervous, anxious, or on-edge during more than half of the days in the prior two weeks. In a 2018 survey, fewer than half as many students reported any of these feelings.

WATCH: Dean Ayman El-Mohandes discusses the latest CUNY SPH COVID-19 tracking survey and the future of NYC post-pandemic at the 92nd Street Y #CityofTomorrow2020 summit. The dean's presentation begins at the two-hour mark: cunysph.me/CoT

For unhoused people in New York City, managing menstruation can be nearly impossible. They often lack clean, safe, spaces to tend to their needs, and menstrual ...stigma is intensified because of it. A new study from Prof. Andrew Maroko (of CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy & Lehman College) explores this dual burden.

We’ve never doubted the strength, resilience, and grit of our CUNY community. But if there’s one lesson we learned from COVID-19, it’s that each and every one of us can do our part to bring back the city we love. #MaskUpCUNY to show the skeptics that you can never kill New York.

Since the start of the #COVID19 outbreak in New York City, people are allegedly fleeing in droves. But does the data actually indicate real or long-term demographic shifts? Join the 92nd Street Y, Hundred Stories, and ELLE Decor for a panel discussion featuring CUNY SPH Dean Ayman El-Mohandes tomorrow, October 14 at 12:00pm: cunysph.me/92Y #CityofTomorrow2020

In 2016, the Prevention Access Campaign launched the "Undetectable = Untransmittable campaign to spread the word that people with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit #HIV sexually. A study by CUNY SPH researchers gauges the breadth and reach of that message: cunysph.me/u-u

#PancreaticCancer is devastating due to its often late diagnosis and unresponsiveness to current therapies. In a recent study, CUNY SPH Associate Professor Ghada Soliman investigated potential therapeutic interventions in the treatment of pancreatic diseases: cunysph.me/mTOR