News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Health Sciences Integrated Program. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our program's news: both faculty and students' latest achievements, awards and honors:
Academic Year 2025-2026 HSIP Defenses to Date04.23.2026Fall 2025:
- Sarah Philbin defended her dissertation: "Treating Complexity: Evidence-Based Care for Chronic Conditions in Federally Qualified Health Centers" on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
- Kevin Yu defended his dissertation: "Development and Evaluation of Personalized First-Line Hypertension Treatment Strategies: An Exploration of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" on Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
Winter 2026:
Zhidi Luo defended his dissertation: "Evaluation of State Maltreatment Policy and Family First Prevention Services Act Components in the Context of Child Maltreatment Outcomes" on Friday, March 3, 2026.
Spring 2026:
- Emmanuel Okpetu defended his dissertation: “Strengthening Hypertension Care Through Primary Health Care in Nigeria: A Mixed-Methods Assessment Using an Implementation Science Lens” on Friday, April 10, 2026.
- Lixuan Cong defended her dissertation: "Improving Communication Among Multidisciplinary Clinicians about Why a Patient Is in Shock A Human-Centered Design Approach" on Tuesday, April 22, 2026.
- Stella Wang defended her dissertation: "Measuring Fine Motor Control in Cognitive Aging with Digitized Archimedes Spiral Test" on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
Upcoming April 2026 Defenses:
- Katie Cohen to defend her dissertation: "Advancing Implementation of Single Session Interventions in Schools" on Friday, April 24, 2026.
- Gabriel Shedul to defend his dissertation: "Economic Evaluation of Hypertension Treatment Led by Non-Physician Healthcare Workers in a Low- and Middle-Income Country and the Role of Supportive Supervision in its Implementation and Effectiveness Outcomes" on Monday, April 27, 2026.
- Emily Dinelli to defend her dissertation: "Social Determinants of Health and Health Outcomes Among Black and African American Individuals Living with Dysvascular Lower Extremity Amputations" on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
- HSIP Student Presentations: April 2026 Conferences04.22.2026
Masayuki Teramoto is presented “Coronary Artery Calcium Progression, Cognitive Impairment, and Brain MRI Markers of Small Vessel Disease in MESA” at the MESA Spring Meeting in Rockville, Maryland, on April 14, 2026.
Hannah Cheng is presented "Economic evaluations of nonpharmacological treatments for chronic pain in the United States: A scoping review" at the International Congress on Integrative Medicine & Health in Salt Lake City, UT on April 21, 2026.
Chelsea Brown is presenting "Well-Being in Diabetes: Testing a Positive Psychology Intervention" at the Society for Behavioral Medicine in Chicago, IL on April 23, 2026.
04.21.2026Individuals exposed to adverse neighborhood social factors in early adulthood demonstrated a higher risk of developing coronary artery calcification in midlife, a key measure of early cardiovascular disease, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications.
04.20.2026HSIP is proud to announce that Saki Amagai was selected as a recipient of the 2026 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) LEAD Fund Trainee Award!
04.15.2026Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu, PhD, has been named one of seven early-career scientists selected for the 2031 class of the William T. Grant Scholars program.
04.03.2026A national policy intervention implemented to address transplant inequities caused by race-based kidney function equations was associated with an increase in organ transplant rates among Black patients, according to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
03.31.2026The Council on Education for Public Health has renewed its accreditation of Northwestern University’s Program in Public Health following an extensive review process and campus visit.
02.06.2026Screening all young people for a genetic form of dangerously high cholesterol could prevent heart attacks and strokes later in life, but would not be cost-effective under the current healthcare system, according to a new modelling study published in JAMA.
01.09.2026Gestational diabetes rose every single year in the U.S. from 2016 through 2024, according to a new Northwestern Medicine analysis of more than 12 million U.S. births.
12.02.2025MS Epidemiology student and health reporter Hannah Harris Green partners with Matt Kiefer to untangle the nation's opioid trends.
11.05.2025David C. Mohr, PhD, founder and director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, will step down in early 2026.
10.21.2025The initial hospital treatment of firearm injuries costed an estimated $7.7 billion between 2016 and 2021, with the largest share falling on urban trauma center hospitals that serve the highest proportion of Medicaid patients, according to a new study.
10.09.2025More than 99 percent of people who went on to suffer a heart attack, stroke or heart failure already had at least one risk factor above optimal level beforehand, according to a new study.
10.02.2025Black adults in the U.S. are first hospitalized for heart failure nearly 14 years earlier than white adults, according to a new study analyzing data from more than 42,000 patients across hundreds of hospitals.
09.30.2025The Osher Center for Integrative Health hosted its 2025 benefit, raising funds to support access to healthy food and address mental well-being
09.12.2025Two chronic pain treatments based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) — telehealth coaching and online self-completed pain coping skills training — improved pain severity and quality of life compared to usual care in patients with high-impact chronic pain, according to a recent study published in JAMA.
09.09.2025Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has launched two new graduate programs centered on the latest methods and design strategies of implementation science.
09.04.2025An international multi-center study revealed how diet plays a greater role in the prevalence of obesity globally than was previously understood, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
08.05.2025CFAAR’s 2025 Ambassadors program gathered 95 high school students from across the country to learn about pathways in research and medicine
07.29.2025Scientists at Northwestern have developed Network Canvas, a free and open-source program to study the complex social drivers of disease.
07.25.2025Three Feinberg students have been selected for the Schweitzer Fellowship — a year-long service-learning program during which fellows design and implement innovative projects that address the health needs of Chicago communities.
07.07.2025CFAAR’s 2025 Food Allergy Summit united global experts to advance care through policy, education, and research, driving collaboration to improve allergy outcomes.
07.03.2025Poor prepregnancy cardiovascular health is associated with a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes and coronary artery calcium in midlife, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
07.02.2025Intravenous fluid use in pediatric emergency departments decreased nationwide following Hurricane Helene, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study, findings that may help emergency departments better allocate resources.
06.10.2025Trust was the key theme during this year's Community-Engaged Research Conference, drawing public health scientists, community organizations and students to Northwestern’s Chicago campus.
06.06.2025The proportion of U.S. children and adolescents with anxiety and depression increased from 2016 to 2022, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine survey analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.
06.03.2025Lilian Bui, ‘25 MD, ’25 MPH, a recent Feinberg graduate, completed two global health rotations as part of her medical school education and has lobbied on behalf of public health on Capitol Hill.
05.29.2025Food insecurity in early childhood is associated with worse heart health two decades later, but participation in public nutrition assistance programs may significantly mitigate that risk, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
05.28.2025Faculty, staff, students and trainees celebrated global health, education and outreach during the 6th annual Global Health Education Day organized by the Center for Global Health Education.