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Rebekah Lewis to Direct Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

She will oversee the center’s public health promotion activities and programs.

April 21, 2025

Clothing Line That Considers Neurodivergences Takes Top Prize at Lerner Competition

A team of students from across the University won $8,000 at the Social Impact Pitch Competition for their Solace Collective clothing pitch. 

April 17, 2025

Healthy Monday Finds a New Home With the Lerner Center

Through a restructuring, the center and The Monday Campaigns seek to ensure the vitality and expansion of beloved health programs envisioned by alumnus Sidney “Sid” Lerner.

March 24, 2025

London Discusses Co-Authored Study on Adult Self-Reported ADHD Diagnosis Status With PsyPost

“There were several reasons to believe that the percentage of working-age adults who have been diagnosed with ADHD by a health care provider has increased over time. However, there is limited population-representative data to test that idea,” says Andrew London, professor of sociology.

March 24, 2025

Gadarian Talks to Christian Science Monitor About Trump Expanding the Power of the Executive Branch

“The executive branch is expanding its powers beyond what any other administration has tried to do,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking. “That’s the crisis we’re in.”

February 28, 2025

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Research Studies by Engelhardt and Montez Cited in 2025 Economic Report of the President

Separate research studies by Professor of Economics Gary Engelhardt and University Professor Jennifer Karas Montez were referenced in Chapter 4 of the report, “Expanding and Strengthening U.S. Health Insurance Coverage.”

January 15, 2025

Social Impact Pitch Competition to Address Public Health Misinformation Among College Students

The Maxwell School's Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health is inviting students and others to offer ideas to be judged on creativity, feasibility, impact and scalability.

November 19, 2024

Montez Featured in American Prospect Article on State Policies and Differences in Health Outcomes

“You have two states that [we]re the same, were pretty middle-of-the-road in terms of life expectancy, but they take opposite trajectories,” says University Professor Jennifer Karas Montez. Some states, she says, took action to “invest in [the state] population’s overall economic well-being and health. And you had other states that took a...very different approach.”

October 22, 2024

Centennial Celebration Honors Alumni, Students, Staff and Faculty for a ‘Century of Service’

The Maxwell School’s 100th anniversary celebration will be held on Oct. 18 in Goldstein Auditorium.

October 1, 2024

NIA Awards $3.8 Million for Maxwell Sociologists’ Health and Longevity Research Networks

Research networks led by Jennifer Karas Montez and Shannon Monnat will use two five-year grant renewals to study adult health and aging trends in the United States.

September 11, 2024

Maxwell Welcomes New Faculty for 2024-25

The Maxwell School welcomes several new faculty members for the start of the 2024-25 academic year.   

September 9, 2024

Research Insights on Population Health Inspire Policy Change

Maxwell's Policy, Place, and Population Health (P3H) Lab investigates the connection between state policies, local conditions, and health and mortality in the United States.

August 29, 2024

Gadarian Weighs In on How Heat May Impact Upcoming Elections in Nonprofit Quarterly Article

Shana Gadarian, professor of political science, notes that while rising temperatures may not shape vote choice directly in the United States this year, they will likely increase the salience of climate as an issue. “This will especially be the case for candidates on the left, where voters name the environment and climate as issues they care about,” she says.

August 14, 2024

Wolf Summarizes Study on COVID-19 Distancing Restrictions, Drug Overdoses on Academic Minute

The study, “States’ COVID-19 Restrictions were Associated with Increases in Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020,” was co-authored by Douglas Wolf, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs, and published in the American Journal of Public Health.

August 5, 2024

Maxwell School 2024-25 Faculty Promotions Include Four Tenure Appointments

Edwin Ackerman, Marc Garcia, Timur Hammond and Alex Rothenberg have been promoted to associate professor.

August 1, 2024

Gadarian Discusses the Role of Delegates in Nominating a Presidential Candidate in UPI Article

“They [delegates] themselves are part of the party apparatus,“ says Shana Gadarian, professor of political science. “As with everything in politics in the United States, everything comes from the states. Occasionally you see a delegate make an individual decision and decide to vote for somebody else but that's pretty rare.”

July 31, 2024

Gadarian Quoted in CS Monitor Article on Democrats’ Rhetorical Challenge After Trump’s Shooting

“You don’t have to say that Trump all of a sudden is a perfect candidate, and doesn’t pose a potential threat to the electoral system, in saying he also shouldn’t be a victim of a crime,” says Shana Kushner Gadarian, professor of political science.

July 19, 2024

Fairchild Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for Project Focused on Pandemic Backlash, Public Health

The educational and research resource will create “new, urgently needed, accessible opportunities for the humanities to speak to public health and broaden access to humanities higher learning opportunities,” says Professor Amy Fairchild, who is principal investigator (PI).

June 12, 2024

From Sovereignty to Mortality: Tenth Decade Awards Support Research Across Disciplines

Funded by gifts from hundreds of individual donors, including a lead gift from long-time Maxwell supporters Gerry and Daphna Cramer, the project has since awarded funds for dozens of faculty-led projects that have explored topics related to citizenship—from labor policy to free speech jurisprudence to climate change.

May 15, 2024

Gadarian Quoted in BNN Bloomberg, USA Today Articles on Politics and Abortion

Trump's position “allows for competitiveness of Democrats in states where these state bans are still in flux, and where Democrats have the potential to put constitutional amendments up for the voters to vote directly on,” says Shana Gadarian, professor of political science. “That has been a story that’s been pretty successful so far for Democrats.”

April 17, 2024

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