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Feature

Michigan Opioid Map highlights areas with high opioid use amid 41% drop in overdose deaths

Aug 27, 2026 See the Michigan Opioid Map

The University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions and Overdose Prevention Engagement Network have released an update to the Michigan Opioid Map and white paper that looks at trends within opioid use hotspots.

In the Media

Op-ed: When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years

Jul 21, 2026 The Conversation

As public health researchers who have been documenting the health impacts of immigration enforcement for over 10 years, we see these immigration sweeps as public health emergencies.

Feature

Moving the needle on syringe exchanges in Appalachian Kentucky

Dec 9, 2019

This is part of a series of stories from the field for the “Understanding Communities of Deep Disadvantage” project.

Map of the U.S. showing the most disadvantage communities by color coding counties

Journal Publications

Displaced Workers and Poor Health Outcomes: A Continuing Challenge for US Population Health

June 18, 2026

Sarah Burgard

Journal article in American Journal of Public Health

Journal Publications

Referrals to a Novel Health Care Equity Consult Service

March 13, 2026

Samantha Guyah, Okeoma Mmeje, Prianka Shakil-Brown, Kamau Ayubbi, Rachel S. Bergmans, Christina Wright, Erin M. Khang, Susan Dorr Goold, David J. Brown, Erika A. Newman

Journal article in JAMA Network Open

Journal Publications

Employment and Health Burden Changes Among Medicaid Expansion Enrollees

October 31, 2025

Minal Patel, Sarah J. Clark, Erin Beathard, Matthias Kirch, Nicolas Box, Renuka Tipirneni, John Ayanian, Susan Dorr Goold

JAMA Health Forum Medicaid coverage promotes health and economic well-being for uninsured low-income adults. Medicaid expansion without work requirements has been associated with improved employment, health, and care access.1-4 With Medicaid expansi...

Funded faculty research

Can Peer Support Specialists Deliver Technology-Based Job Interview Training for People with Psychiatric Disabilities?

January 2018 - December 2018

Adrienne Lapidos, Michele Heisler

Researchers held focus groups with 34 Certified Peer Support Specialists from across Michigan to learn more about their experiences with vocational services.

Funded faculty research

Overcoming the chilling effect: Identifying strategies for improving immigrant families’ acceptability and accessibility to health and social services that alleviate poverty

January 2018 - December 2018

Paul J. Fleming, William D. Lopez

The researchers found undocumented clients encounter three phases of delay: delay in the decision to seek care, delay in identifying and traveling to healthcare facilities, and delay in receiving adequate and appropriate care at healthcare facilities.

Doctor puts a blood pressure sleeve on a patient

Funded faculty research

Program on Equity In Child and Adolescent Health (PEACH) at Mott Hospital

January 2020 - December 2020

Gary L. Freed

This project aimed to examine the potential for inequity resulting from variation in the actual care provided by clinicians and hospital personnel to children and their families.

school kids in masks during the pandemic