Thomas LaVeist: Vaccine Hesitancy
QUOTED: THOMAS LAVEIST
“I completely understand the mistrust. But you have to consider the risk of COVID versus the risk of the vaccine. This is a devastating disease and it has disproportionately impacted Black Americans. That is what we do know.”
A Good Night’s Sleep
A Tulane study found that adults with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42 percent lower risk of heart failure regardless of other risk factors compared to adults with unhealthy sleep patterns.
Medicine and Public Health on the Front Lines
Tulane’s MD/MPH joint degree program has trained physician leaders for 50 years — and counting.
Health Equity
Health Equity: story about Thomas LaVeist, dean of School of Public Health
Health Equity: story about Thomas LaVeist, dean of School of Public Health
Health Equity
As the COVID-19 crisis engulfs the Black community, Thomas LaVeist, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, explains why — and leads the way to changing the unjust health gap.
Impression: Susan Hassig
After years of studying HIV transmission, Susan Hassig (PHTM ’84, ’87), associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, became a go-to media source on the prevention and spread of COVID-19.
Why I Volunteer for Tulane
Tulane’s synonymity with New Orleans is what drew me to the university.
Thomas Laveist, dean of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
“... the stereotype is that the environment is about tree hugging or saving exotic birds.”
THOMAS LAVEIST, dean of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in Bloomberg Environment on why he thinks black politicians haven’t focused much on climate change.
THOMAS LAVEIST, dean of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in Bloomberg Environment on why he thinks black politicians haven’t focused much on climate change.
