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Aesthetic analysis of therapeutic urban green space in Shanghai
This project examines aesthetic features supporting therapeutic urban green space in Shanghai. Urban green space promotes public health by providing a therapeutic opportunity in nature, and its therapeutic impacts have been identified in many cities. Although aesthetic beauty contributes to therapeutic impacts of green space, however, we still know little about features of aesthetic and […]
Student-lead Public Health Ethics Research Project
This project has two stages, where the philosophical portion of the literature review is done prior to beginning the next stage. Research through literature review, participating in discussions regarding the readings, potential research questions that are applicable to COVID-19 pandemics, and will complete a research paper for publication or presentation. The paper will focus on […]
Ovarian Cancer Documentary
Ovarian cancer, known to be the most lethal gynecologic cancer, is the leading type of cancer death in women worldwide. However, the most recent year in the study saw more decreases in funding for research on ovarian cancer than for research on other cancers. In addition, there is a huge critical knowledge discrepancy between patients […]
Can Chinese accurately recognize pain from foreigners’ facial expressions?
Facial expression is a crucial nonverbal channel of pain communication that is often incorporated in clinical assessment and treatment. It is known that underestimation of minorities’ facial expressions of pain would lead to further racial disparities in pain care. However, research so far has been mainly conducted in Western countries. Little is known about how […]
Public Square 2.0
Public Square 2.0 is a video-based multi-projection installation about people’s interactions within the public space, as a reflection of people’s relationships within a community in Beijing under the COVID-19 context. The videos screened within are documentations of human interactions in a community in Beijing during the COVID-19 outbreak from March to August in 2020. Each […]
The Mental Health Consequences of Ethnic Violence: Assessing Needs and Low-Cost Interventions
Exposure to ethnic violence instigates a wide range of psychiatric disorders, and the prevalence of mental health problems in conflict zones is more than double the average prevalence of mental disorders worldwide. Still, scholars know very little about the coping mechanisms available to individuals in post-conflict settings (Ng et al. 2020). This project fills in […]
MediHealth Podcast
MediHealth Podcast is a student-led science podcast, bridging the gap between health professionals and the general public. Our podcast offers scientifically justified responses to the questions of public health and wellbeing. Anyone who wishes to gain insight into medicine and its repercussions on public or global health will benefit from engaging with this platform. Professionals […]
How Misinformation Affects Public Support for Policies that Reduce Pandemic Risk
The WHO report on the Origins of COVID-19 suggest that the COVID-19 did not originate from the wet market in Wuhan, nor was manufactured in a lab. The most likely culprit is zoonotic transfer. 75% of newly emerging diseases are zoonotic. The risk of zoonotic transfer has been increasing due to anthropogenic impacts on wildlife […]
Endometriosis in China: Documentary-focused Educational Website-building
This project aims to create and exhibit (in the space of a website) a collection of infographics and episodic documentaries that explain the science of endometriosis and address the situation of endometriosis in China from a patient-centered perspective. The primary focus is the making of the documentary series which will target endometriosis patients at The […]
