Profiles

Salma Mohamed Hassan Abdalla, MBBS, MPH, DrPH

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health

News & In the Media

• Published on December 13, 2024

  SPH Community Pays Tribute to Dean Galea

• Published on June 28, 2024

  Income, Urbanicity Influence Perceptions of Factors that Shape Health

• Published on June 6, 2024

  One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

• Published on May 31, 2024

  About 1 in 3 Americans Have Lost Someone to a Drug Overdose, New Study Finds

• Published on March 30, 2024

  Las Vegas Mass Shooting Survivors Continue to Struggle with Major Depression, PTSD

• Published on November 14, 2023

  How to Cope with Watching War Unfold, According to Mental Health Experts

• Published on November 3, 2023

  Global Study Links Nutrition Insecurity to Increased Mental Health Decline during COVID-19

• Published on August 25, 2023

  Researchers Launch Data Repository for Global Social Determinants of Health

• Published on March 9, 2023

  Weeks after Ohio Train Derailment, Health Concerns Mount

• Published on December 28, 2022

  If You Can’t Afford the Cost of Therapy, It’s Not Your Fault

• Published on December 8, 2022

  Suicidal Thoughts Surged among People Struggling with Finances, Isolation during COVID-19

• Published on November 26, 2022

  Inside the New-Age Spiritual Retreats of the Future—and Our Search for Something More

• Published on October 11, 2022

  The Flint Water Crisis, Mental Health, and Lessons for Other Disasters

• Published on September 22, 2022

  Five Years After Water Crisis, Nearly 1 in 4 Flint Residents Has PTSD

• Published on September 20, 2022

  Years after Water Crisis, Flint Residents Reported High Rates of Depression, PTSD

• Published on May 11, 2022

  Why So Many Young Adults with Depression Don’t Get Treatment

• Published on May 2, 2022

  Survey Finds 4 in 10 American Adults Know Someone Who Died of COVID-19

• Published on April 28, 2022

  Can a Video Game Tell If You’re Depressed?

• Published on March 2, 2022

  Having Assets May Protect People from Persistent Depression during COVID

• Published on January 3, 2022

  The 2022 New Year Doesn’t Have to Be the Moment You Forget about Your Grief

• Published on December 21, 2021

  Why 2021 Felt Worse than 2020, and How to Feel Better in 2022

• Published on November 29, 2021

  ‘Time Is a Contributor to Stress’: Arkansas Social Worker Says Holidays Can Bring Anxiety

• Published on November 23, 2021

  Exercise Can Improve Mood, Reduce Anxiety

• Published on November 4, 2021

  Burned Out, Overworked or Depressed? Pope Francis Is Praying for You.

• Published on October 4, 2021

  Depression Rates Tripled and Symptoms Intensified during First Year of COVID

• Published on September 27, 2021

  New School of Health & Human Services at Keuka College

• Published on September 21, 2021

  BU-Led Global Commission Launches Roadmap to Better Health

• Published on September 17, 2021

  Research Fellow Advised WHO’s Independent Panel on Global COVID-19 Response

• Published on August 10, 2021

  Anxiety Disorders and Depression Treatment Market | 2021 Growth, Size, Share and Trends Analysis Research Report 2027

• Published on June 29, 2021

  Anxiety on Returning to Offices Has Employers Evaluating Mental Health and Wellness Benefits

• Published on June 28, 2021

  How to Be Cheerful With Customers When You’re Not Feeling Positive Yourself

• Published on June 21, 2021

  Being More Social for Just 2 Weeks Made Me Happier. Here’s Why

• Published on June 11, 2021

  Health Systems Resilience in Managing COVID-19

• Published on May 14, 2021

  Peloton Instructor Kendall Toole Considers Her Mental Health Diagnosis Part of Her Power

• Published on May 11, 2021

  The COVID Pandemic Is Highlighting Men’s Mental Health and How They Can Seek Help

• Published on March 23, 2021

  It’s OK to Feel Joy Right Now

• Published on March 9, 2021

  Why I Stopped Running during the Pandemic (and How I Started Again)

• Published on February 24, 2021

  Why COVID-19 Is Driving up the Cost of Healthcare in Retirement and What You Can Do Now to Prepare

• Published on February 16, 2021

  University of Iowa Health Experts Worry about Psychological Effects of the Pandemic

• Published on February 9, 2021

  Hour of Need: As Rate of Depression Grows, Brainsway CEO Hopes Its Mental Health Tool Gains Greater Recognition Soon

• Published on February 4, 2021

  How Advisers Can Support Employees Facing Serious Health Issues

• Published on February 4, 2021

  Researchers Contribute to Surgeon General’s Report on Social Determinants

• Published on February 3, 2021

  Evaluating COVID-19’s Behavioral Health Impact on the Economy

• Published on January 25, 2021

  Mayo Clinic Weighs in on Mental Health Struggles during Pandemic

• Published on January 5, 2021

  Our View: 2021 | Good News to Come in the Year Ahead

• Published on December 15, 2020

  Pandemic-Related Depression Is Rampant—Here’s How to Make Yourself Feel Better, According to Experts

• Published on December 11, 2020

  People Don’t Just Die From COVID-19. They Die Because of It

• Published on December 11, 2020

  How Personal Health Barometers Got Indexed to COVID

• Published on December 10, 2020

  Therapists Predict How the Holidays Will Affect Our Mental Health

• Published on December 7, 2020

  Superintendent’s Notebook: Winter and the Pandemic – Hit ‘Em Head On

• Published on December 2, 2020

  ‘Tired of Being Sad.’ The Financial Stress From COVID Is Taking an Emotional Toll

• Published on December 2, 2020

  ‘Tired of Being Sad.’ The Financial Stress From COVID Is Taking an Emotional Toll

• Published on December 2, 2020

  As the Pandemic Shatters Americans’ Mental Health, the FDA, Psychiatrists, and Developers Are Betting on Smartphone Apps to Treat Them Directly

• Published on November 25, 2020

  Art Therapy Adapting to COVID-19 and Helping Those in Need

• Published on November 25, 2020

  Our Mental Health Is at Risk (but Not Because of COVID)

• Published on November 25, 2020

  The Surprising Mental Toll of COVID

• Published on October 28, 2020

  For Cardiovascular Disease, It’s the 20 Percent vs the 80 Percent

• Published on September 16, 2020

  Amid the Pandemic and Our Reckoning With Race Is An Emerging Mental Health Crisis

• Published on September 16, 2020

  Access to Health Care and the 2020 US Election

• Published on September 10, 2020

  Depression Symptoms Rising Among Adults Amid Pandemic, Study Shows

• Published on September 8, 2020

  Older Women Account for Highest Rates of Rising Antidepressant Use: CDC

• Published on September 4, 2020

  The Pandemic Is Taking a Heavy Toll on Our Mental Health, Study Finds

• Published on September 3, 2020

  Depression, Anxiety Spike Amid Outbreak and Turbulent Times

• Published on September 2, 2020

  COVID Has Likely Tripled Depression Rates in the US

• Published on June 25, 2020

  Deep Racial and Socioeconomic Divides Are Shaping the Events of 2020

• Published on April 17, 2020

  Africa and Coronavirus — Will Lockdowns Work?

• Published on March 24, 2020

  3-D Commission: How Data Science Could Revolutionize Population Health

• Published on March 10, 2020

  Global Health Needs to Be Global & Diverse

• Published on October 31, 2019

  FGM Harms Mental Health, But Research Is Lacking

• Published on November 20, 2018

  An Open Letter to the WLGH18 Steering Committee: The Need to Adopt an Intersectional Lens to the Gender Equity Agenda in Global Health

• Published on December 17, 2017

  Towards a Global Public Health

• Published on September 24, 2017

  Chronic Pain and the Health of Populations

• Published on April 9, 2017

  The Growing Impact of Dementia on the Health of Populations

• Published on February 12, 2017

  Housing and the Health of the Public

• Published on April 28, 2016

  Student Leads International Medical Association General Assembly

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