Research and Policy Media Relations Manager
Gavin draws on more than 25 years of experience in communicating about science, medicine and health policy. She focuses mainly on the health services research done by members of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, who work to understand and improve the safety, quality, equity and affordability of health care. As part of the Michigan Medicine communication team, she has lead responsibility for primary care and mental health topics. Contact: [email protected]; Twitter: @Karag
Medicine at Michigan
Gift will expand and harness the power of massive data to help bipolar patients
Medicine at Michigan
Tadataka and Leslie Yamada’s gift will establish the U-M Center for Global Health Equity
Health Lab
Prescribing guidelines recommend the opioid overdose rescue drug naloxone for anyone taking high-dose prescription opioids, overdose survivors and people with opioid addiction. A new study shows few receive it.
Health Lab
Online reviews giving recommendations about doctors are viewed by older adults looking to choose a physician, but they factor them in with word-of- mouth reputation and more.
News Release
Today, we take them for granted. Huge university medical centers, filled with patients who travel miles to receive care that’s available nowhere else, from teams of highly specialized clinicians.
News Release
Twenty years ago, a musical experiment started on the University of Michigan campus. A group of amateur musicians, all of them working or studying in medicine and science, put out the word that they wanted to form an orchestra for people like them.
News Release
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, something extraordinary happened at the University of Michigan. Its effects have reverberated down through history – not only on the campus, but across the state and nation.
Health Lab
Older married couples facing multimorbid chronic diseases experienced a rise in depression symptoms over time if those conditions required different types of preventive care or risk reduction.
Health Lab
Medicaid expansion in Michigan emphasized primary care and prevention, and based financial incentives for enrollees on examining health risks and engaging in healthy behaviors. Two new studies look at the results.
Health Lab
Major political events including the 2016 election and 2017 inauguration affected the moods of medical interns, while other major events in the same years did not, signaling a politically aware generation of young physicians.
Health Lab
Disability disclosures by medical students to medical schools have increased, as have accommodations for conditions ranging from attention ones like deficit disorder and depression to hearing impairment.
News Release
The University of Michigan led the nation with 22 faculty members -- 14 of them affiliated with the U-M Medical School -- elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Health Lab
Nearly half of older Americans think they may develop dementia, but few have asked their doctor about it.
Health Lab
Open enrollment tips for buying health insurance through the Obamacare marketplace on healthcare.gov.
News Release
No matter where in Michigan they are, people in pain will soon have a chance to get effective care with less risk of opioid-related problems, thanks to a new website launched by the CDC-funded University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center and the state Department of Health and Human Services.
