In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, the World Health Summit Academic Alliance and leading medical journal The Lancet have launched a joint commission that will examine and strengthen the core responsibilities of academic institutions to health research and to society, and work to restore public trust in scientific institutions. The 30-member commission includes Dr. Adnan Hyder, dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, who coauthored a new commentary in The Lancet to announce this initiative and call for international, cross-sector collaborations to combat health and science misinformation.

An artificial intelligence cell model, trained on more than 100 million cells from a dozen species, will make it easier to compare cells between species.

Researchers from Mass General Brigham, led by former maternal-fetal medicine fellow Taylor S. Freret, MD, MEd, under the supervision of Mark A. Clapp, MD, MPH, examined uptake of azithromycin for emergency c-sections after 2016 and whether there was an associated decrease in postpartum infection rates. The team used data from Epic Cosmos to compare rates between 2013 and 2016 to rates between 2017 and 2024.

The Kinsey Institute released new data from its annual Singles in America survey, the nation’s most comprehensive and longest-running annual study of single adults. Surveying approximately 5,000 U.S. singles aged 18 and older, Kinsey Institute researchers examine attitudes, behaviors, and experiences across areas such as singlehood, dating, relationships, marriage, and children, as well as wider social and economic context in which relationships take place, including finances, work, gender roles, mental health, social media, technology, and politics. Data show renewed interest in marriage, economic barriers to relationship and family formation, shifting attitudes to love at first sight, new roles for technology, and new strategies for finding partners. 

The University of Cincinnati is part of Ohio's $18 million behavioral health scholarship program, offering graduate students in selected fields full tuition in exchange for serving underserved communities after graduation.

Most people think of segregation as a social phenomenon. But a Cary-led special feature in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how segregation also has deep ecological legacies that shape things like access to water, safety from floods, and exposure to extreme heat. To foster equitable cities, the Segregation and Urban Ecology special feature emphasizes the importance of understanding urban spaces as social-ecological systems in order to break cycles that reinforce segregation and its harms.

Ultrafine particulate air pollution floats through the air like a miasma, leaving heart disease, dementia, and asthma in its wake. But ultrafine pollution doesn’t affect everyone equally. Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Tufts University report on July 28 in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology that a larger waist—indicating more fat around the organs—makes people more vulnerable.