WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 11: Participants hold signs during March for Our Lives 2022 on June 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for March For Our Lives) There has been an ...

Mariska Hargitay, a 2023 Women's Media Center Award honoree, recently shared her story of sexual assault. She started Joyful Heart Foundation to support survivors. The World Health Organization ...

An article in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives presents a new framework for promoting transportation safety, integrating concepts from public health. The “Safe ...

Hundreds of students marched outside Denver's East High School on March 3 to honor a fallen classmate, Luis Garcia. He was shot recently just down the street from here and died two days earlier. He ...

Photos, flowers, and handwritten signs surround a campaign poster for Rep. Melissa Hortman at a memorial inside the Minnesota State Capitol on Monday, June 16, in St. Paul, Minn. One sign reads “RIP ...

At its core, public health is about driving healthy behavior changes by building awareness, meeting people where they are, and offering solutions that are accessible and grounded in evidence.

Sheena explores how a public health approach can reduce gun violence. Vitals host Sheena explores the potential solutions to reducing gun violence in her hometown of Philadelphia, and interviews two ...

Cervical cancer is deadliest among lower-income countries and is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Kenya, according to 2024 data from the World Economic Forum. This is a public health issue six ...

When a military working dog gets sick overseas, the issue can involve more than just animal health. When service members deploy to regions with different diseases, there are more than just human ...

COVID-19 has taught us many deadly lessons, among them how dangerous it is to approach a health problem as a political problem. We have lost lives, jobs, hope, and an imagined future, all because ...

A study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology is the first comprehensive approach to detect all known ...