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Contact Tracing: Use Volunteers or Paid Public Health Corps?

Q&A with Angela Beck

The House of Representative plans to introduce a bipartisan bill that would create a National Public Health Corps similar to AmeriCorps that would hire hundreds of workers to help conduct contact tracing as the US moves to reopen its economy. Angela Beck discusses the idea of such a workforce.

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The Idea to 'Flatten the Curve'

Decades of studying pandemics and how to curb them led University of Michigan physician-historian Howard Markel to coin a term the rest of us now use in daily conversation.

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IN THE NEWS: Our Noisy World's Toll on Our Ears

Rick Neitzel featured on American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Podcast

As part of this research partnership between Apple and the University of Michigan, Rick Neitzel is collecting data on personal listening device use and noisy environments through the Apple Research app. The hope is this research could influence policies that one day change noise pollution levels.