Jennifer Smith, a behavioral ecologist at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., said the idea for the paper arose early in the pandemic, in conversations that she and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, had over (of course) Zoom. They saw how Covid-19 was highlighting health disparities and other inequalities around the world. The […]

An estimated 7.5 million U.S. adults became new gun owners over a recent 28-month span, sharply increasing the prospects for home accidents or people taking their own lives, according to research by Matt Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University in Boston.

An associate dean at Northeastern University who runs a COVID-19 testing program questions whether the scramble to get tested is really necessary, especially as people face long waits in the cold.

Storybench, a collaboration between Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and Esquire Magazine, assesses and offers information on digital journalism, from data visualization projects to interactive documentaries.

“Omicron was fast and furious in its growth and will be fast—hopefully not furious—but very fast also in its decline,” Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and a specialist in data science and computational epidemiology, predicted last week. “It should be receding sooner than other waves that we experienced in the past.”

“The most vulnerable population includes the very young, elderly, pregnant women, and those with weakened immune systems,” Darin Detwiler, associate professor of food safety at Northeastern University, tells Health. “However, people of all ages and health status can be severely affected.”

New lung cancer screening guidelines rolled out last year have increased the eligibility of Black women by 50 percent, according to researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University and the University of California, Berkeley.  

New lung cancer screening guidelines rolled out last year have increased the eligibility of Black women by 50 percent, according to researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University and the University of California, Berkeley.  

“​​If you do the counting, the partisanship of the outcomes is disturbingly predictable,” said Wendy Parmet, a health law professor at Northeastern University. “You have basically all Democratic appointees upholding [the vaccine mandates]. And almost all of them are being struck down by Republican appointees.” The implications of these cases, she said, could extend far […]

Ms. Parmet is a professor of law and the faculty co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.

On WBUR’s All Things Considered, we asked three Massachusetts scholars — Ted Landsmark, of Northeastern University; Amel Ahmed, of UMass Amherst; and Ibram X. Kendi, of Boston University — to discuss the ramifications of the Capitol attack and where we are a year later.  

Edward H. Miller is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University and the author of “A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism.”