Population Healthy Newsletter | February 22, 2023 | View as Webpage

Exploring gender affirming care on the

Population Healthy podcast

You may have heard the term “gender affirming care” in the news or on social media. Often this term is used to refer to surgical procedures to help an individual’s body match their gender identity. However, gender affirming care is actually more than that. It involves a combination of medical, psychological, social, and legal factors.

On this episode of the Population Healthy podcast, we’ll talk with healthcare and public health experts, as well as members of the transgender community, to explore what gender affirming care actually is and how it can impact health outcomes for transgender and non-binary individuals.

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Lingering symptoms common after COVID-19 hospitalization

About half of adults treated at hospitals for COVID-19 have experienced lingering symptoms, financial difficulties, or physical limitations months after being discharged, according to a National Institutes of Health-supported study published in JAMA Network Open.

“My clinic patients often want to know how soon they’ll get back to their usual health,” said Andrew J. Admon, the study’s first author, an assistant professor in the departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Michigan and pulmonologist at LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center in Ann Arbor. “Based on these data, it seems that many people hospitalized for COVID-19 should expect symptoms to last for up to six months or even longer.”

Image Credit: Justine Ross

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Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare

Bias in healthcare delivery leads to worse patient care and patient outcomes. This massive open online course (MOOC) titled, “Advancing Health Equity: A Guide for Reducing Bias in Healthcare” provides interactive bias training that teaches skills applicable to addressing enhanced public health guidelines and approaching the work of health equity.

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F. DuBois Bowman Reappointed Dean of

Michigan Public Health

The University of Michigan Board of Regents has approved the reappointment of F. DuBois Bowman as dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health for a second five-year term, effective August 15, 2023.

"Dean Bowman has distinguished himself as a brilliant leader who is uniquely poised to navigate the complexity of public health in a large research intensive university,” said Laurie McCauley, University of Michigan Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. “The same precision and expansive perspective that define his public health work animate his leadership. Dean Bowman has proven himself a steady leader under the most demanding circumstances, and a capable driver of positive change. I am grateful we will have the opportunity for further collaboration at such a promising time in the university’s history.”

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Michigan Public Health in the news

Stateside: Marc Zimmerman, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, discusses the potential reasons why mass shootings are happening so frequently and what is being considered to solve the issue.