How We Age: Elena Portacolone Looks at Older Adults Living Alone

In July 1995, as Chicago sweltered in temperatures that soared to over 100°F, more than 500 people died – largely the isolated elderly, many of whom who couldn’t afford air conditioning and were often too afraid to leave doors or windows open in their crime-plagued neighborhoods.

Implications for women of Louisiana’s law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges

Nursing: Health Policy Alumna Rebecca Kriz has co-authored her first  article, a New ANSIRH study which shows Louisiana Admitting Privileges Law would drastically limit abortion access.  

Health Pollicy student Kate Horton commentary featured in Science of Caring

  Commentary: Sex Work, Health Policy and the Need for a Grassroots Social Movement Perspective February 2015 • By Kate Horton  

Dr. Claudia Chaufan interviewed in The Guardian

Dr. Claudia Chaufan, Associate Adjunct Professor at The Institute for Health and Aging, was recently quoted in The Guardian newspaper. 

Brooke Hollister feature in the Science of Caring

Gaining Policy Experience in the Belly of the Beast The last few years of health care debates have made clear how deep and lasting an impact policy decisions can have on the health of a nation and on the people and institutions delivering care.

Ruth Malone Featured in CDC video: Unequal Opportunity Killer

Published on Sep 12, 2014

Wendy Max and Hai-Yen Sung release report on the Economic Impact of Smoking

A county-by-county report of the costs of smoking in California funded by the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) was recently completed by University of California San Francisco (UCSF) researchers, Drs. Wendy Max and Hai-Yen Sung. It is the third in a series of reports on California...

National Senior Citizens Law Center Honors Carroll Estes at Intimate Reception

DC event to focus on the stories of senior women living in poverty October 16, 2014