Dr. Marlene Camacho-Rivera co-authored ​Neighborhoods and Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. 

The scientific statement highlights how neighborhoods can impact environmental exposures, access to resources, and opportunities, exacerbating cardiovascular health. It provides a roadmap, illustrating how existing knowledge about impact of environments on CVH can help design interventions to improve CVH at the population, health system, community, and individual levels. Please see the press release on the American Heart Association Science News  website. The full article was published in the journal Circulation, titled Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 

 

Dr. Salva Dura Bernal's research group, along with collaborators, developed a detailed computational model of the macaque auditory thalamocortical circuits. The model integrates multiscale experimental data from many studies, and can reproduce aspects of in vivo brain activity across scales, including single cell spikes, LFP and EEG. The model can provide insights into the biophysical cellular and network mechanisms underlying auditory cortical activity such as neural oscillations. Given the similarities with human thalamocortical circuitry, we hope these insights will help to better understand and treat brain disease and disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.
The model, developed using the NetPyNE tool, is available as a community resource for research, and can be collaboratively updated and extended as new data become available. Link to Cell Reports publication: https://lnkd.in/epKAd6Nd

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Dr. Marcus Lambert, an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, has been granted a $1.72 million NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) R35 grant for a period of five years by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The grant will support his research on effective mentorship networks for underrepresented researchers. The study will use graph theory and develop an intervention to assist underrepresented researchers in building strong mentoring networks.

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Dr. Thomas I. Mackie, Chair of Health Policy and Management has secured two Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) awards.

• “Improving Research Partnership With Engagement Mapping: A Pilot Study to Advance Engagement Science”,  a 3-year $2.1M award, will advance the development of strategies to facilitate meaningful engagement of communities underrepresented in research partnerships. The research will be conducted in partnership with University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, Postpartum Support International, and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. 

• “Pathways to Perinatal Mental Health Equity research study,” is a 6-year 3.1 million sub-contractual award to conduct a perinatal mental health equity study in partnership with Postpartum Support International and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Researchers will compare a medical model of improving mood and anxiety disorder care in OB practices to a healthcare community partnership model. Together with Drs. Camille Clare and Azure Thompson, the team at Downstate Health Sciences University will lead the intervention implementation study and the Engagement Core. 

 

Dr. Janet Rosenbaum has been appointed to the 12 member editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health, the flagship journal of the American Public Health Association on November 16, 2023.

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Dr. Rafael Flores-Obando, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Todd Sacktor’s laboratory, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and a graduate of the School of Graduate Studies, was selected by the Society for Neuroscience as a recipient of a 2023 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA). The award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research. TPDA recipients join an online cohort and receive access to professional development opportunities on Neuronline in the year following the award.

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Dr. Laura Geer, Chair and Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, was named a 2024 Climate and Health Scholar by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As one of only seven individuals nationwide to receive this honor, Dr. Geer will contribute to NIH’s initiatives addressing health threats from climate change, focusing on enhancing health resilience globally. 

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