The findings highlight the benefits of paid leave mandates as a way to increase healthcare access and potentially improve healthcare equity in the U.S., where 1 in 4 people have no paid sick leave

Dr. Dominique Meekers in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine was recently awarded a two-year more than $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and test new patient-centered digital counseling tools for family planning in partnership with two leading Nigerian organizations.

Tulane trauma psychologists have received a $1.17 million federal grant to take their successful school-based trauma program across Louisiana and the nation.

Tony Hu, director of Tulane’s Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics and professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Microbiology, was invested in the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation. The ceremony took place on Jan. 20 at Hutchinson auditorium at Tulane’s School of Medicine.

Matt Koenig has been hired as the university’s new executive director of Intellectual Property Management. He joins Tulane from the University of Kansas.

Tulane University researchers are looking beyond the immune system to see if the body’s ability to use nutrients at a cellular level can predict disease response and severity.