June 13, 2023

A University of Cincinnati epidemiologist found that residents in counties with limited access to high-speed internet face fewer health care options than people who live in counties with widespread computer literacy and access to high-speed internet.

University of Cincinnati epidemiologist Diego Cuadros is used to telling people what they don’t want to hear. The assistant professor runs the Health Geography and Disease Modeling Lab in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, where he studies global topics such as HIV, malaria and, this year, COVID-19. He condenses data into easy-to-follow maps that predict the future with uncanny accuracy.

February 10, 2023

Research from the University of Cincinnati is helping to expose the health disparities that negatively affect Ohioans in poorer communities, both urban and rural, and guiding solutions to offer better care.

December 15, 2022

A new study in the Lancet found that wide disparities in health care coverage, particularly in rural areas, hampered vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings point to a hidden divide in America between those with ready geographic and financial access to doctors, hospitals and clinics and those without.

May 26, 2021

A new study by the University of Cincinnati finds that fatal opiate overdoses are most prevalent in six states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee. Researchers identified 25 hot spots of fatal opioid overdoses nationwide using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study demonstrates how both widespread and localized the problem of substance use disorders can be.

November 2, 2020

In parts of the country where COVID-19 is surging, residents of rural counties are dying from coronavirus at higher rates than those in urban areas, according to a new health policy brief by the University of Cincinnati.

February 10, 2022

Rural counties saw 2.4 times more COVID-19 infections per capita compared to urban ones in July and August of 2021, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Early data suggest Omicron is spreading faster in urban areas but causing more hospitalization and death in rural counties where vaccination is lagging.

November 1, 2023

For decades, Clifford Larrabee pursued a lofty goal: to cure cancer. This summer, with a patent secured for a ground-breaking cancer drug delivery system, Larrabee and his co-inventor have left their mark in the ongoing fight against the disease.

June 26, 2020

A diverse team of biologists, chemists, anthropologists and geographers from the University of Cincinnati identified toxic mercury and algae in two central reservoirs of Tikal, an ancient Maya city, in the ninth century shortly before the city was abandoned.

June 24, 2022

University of Cincinnati researchers found evidence of sustainable agriculture and forestry spanning a millennia in one ancient Mayan city.