CHER faculty, Dr. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, talked to Inverse about her study on solitary confinement in prisons. She found that people held in restrictive housing were 127 percent more likely to die from opioid overdose in the two weeks after their release. Click here for the full article: https://www.inverse.com/article/59838-solitary-confinement-mortality-risks

The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics is a prestigious international reference collection that publishes reviews of ethical issues in public health solicited from leading scholars around the world. The recently published volume features work by five faculty and two mentees from the UNC Department of Social Medicine. CHER Faculty, Tonia Poteat, is one of … Read more