Almost one year after the fires, elevated levels of anxiety and depression were concentrated among Angelenos who already faced social and economic hardship.

A lack of data on prisoner characteristics is providing an incomplete picture of who dies in prison and why, which may be contributing to preventable deaths in custody, according to a new report.

In the new report – ‘How recording inequalities can reduce prisoner deaths’  - published here , a team of experts from the University of Nottingham highlight that equality data, including characteristics of prisoners such as disability and indicators of socioeconomic deprivation, was an essential foundation for evidence-based action to prevent deaths in custody.

The study, which is part of the European Research Council funded RECEDE project, was led by Philippa Tomczak, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Dr Laura Haas, Research Fellow, in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.

Historians have for decades chronicled instances of discriminatory practices under Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration mortgage programs, but the extent of these biases has been unknown. The first national-level analysis of early FHA and VA lending practices offers a fuller picture. Researchers from NYU, the University of Virginia, and UC Santa Barbara have found that, from 1935 to 1947, only 2 percent of FHA loans and 5 percent of VA loans went to Black borrowers—at a time when this demographic group made up 10 percent of the US population and 10 percent of the veteran population. 

About the Study: What is the global disease burden attributable to elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)? In 2023, high LDL-C caused 3.6 million deaths (6.0% of all deaths) and 90.7 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (3.2% of total DALYs). Despite declines of 45.6% in age-standardized mortality rates and 39.5% in DALY rates, the absolute LDL-C–related burden increased by 38.5% from 1990 to 2023, driven by population growth and aging, with notable regional disparities shifting toward middle-sociodemographic settings. Strategic approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat elevated LDL-C across populations globally are needed.

The University of Toronto and the Factor-Inwentash Facutly of Social Work are proud to announce that Dr. Amanda Grenier, and her team have been awarded a $2.5 million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to lead a major international research initiative titled Aging in the Margins: Building Inclusivity and Goodwill (AIM BIG).

A study identifies three characteristics that help determine when conspiracy beliefs are most likely to shape real-world behavior: how certain people are that the belief is true, how personally important they consider it, and whether they see it as “actionable” – useful for deciding what to do.