Affiliates in Action – Advancing personal, public, and planetary health
IHSI affiliates advance our mission to address personal, public, and planetary health challenges. Through innovative research, meaningful partnerships, community engagement, and a commitment to health equity, read below to learn how Illinois researchers are making a positive impact across campus and beyond.
Prof. Christopher Gaulke and Prof. Adrienne Antonson have found a link between maternal influenza A infection during pregnancy, disruptions in newborn piglets’ microbiomes and hippocampal gene expression.
Read more: Study links influenza A viral infection to microbiome, brain gene expression changes
Dr. Arjun Athreya discusses the use of wearables in health care and research on the Tomorrow's Cure podcast. Precision medicine, bridging the digital divide, decentralized digital health care and research, preventing burnout among Mayo Clinic nurses, predicting children’s behavior states, and more!
Listen now: Tomorrow’s Cure: Keeping tabs on health with wearable tech
Dr. William Sander identifies gaps and makes recommendations for how DVM-MPH programs might better prepare veterinary public health professionals to address global public health challenges.
Prof. Sergei Maslov develops a model that can more accurately predict microbial population dynamics in a synthetic human gut.
Read more: Coarse-grained model of serial dilution dynamics in synthetic human gut microbiome
Prof. Marynia Kolak, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, and Prof. Eleanor Seaton are raising awareness of racially discriminatory restrictive covenants in Urbana-Champaign.
Prof. Tara Powell finds that addressing the mental health needs of Ukrainian educators enhances their capacity to support their students during the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Full story by the U of I News Bureau: Ukrainian teachers benefit from mental health training that helps their students
Professors Jacinda Dariotis and Becky Smith explore how the pandemic reshaped life for youth & families and draw lessons for future public health crises.
Learn more: https://aces.illinois.edu/news/how-covid-19-pandemic-affected-parents-and-youth-thorns-and-silver-linings
Nitrous oxide misuse deaths are steeply increasing. Prof. Rachel Hoopsick warns, “We are currently at the bottom of a hill” for a major public health issue.
Read more: https://ahs.illinois.edu/new-study-reveals-nitrous-oxide-misuse-deaths-are-steeply-increasing/