Stories by Utibe Effiong

Utibe Effiong, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician, public health scientist, and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Central Michigan University.

I Can’t Breathe: Asthma, Black Men and the Police

The common, chronic inflammation of the airways may help explain why deaths in custody are so high among African-Americans

Obasi Okorie, Ekemini Hogan, Utibe Effiong

This multistate problem carries implications for our responses to future epidemics

Ekemini Hogan, Akpabio Akpabio, Utibe Effiong

Western governments and NGOs are grappling with their own outbreaks, leaving African nations largely on their own

Akpabio Akpabio, Utibe Effiong

The search for a coronavirus treatment should not come at the expense of poor, ailing people

Akpabio Akpabio, Ekemini Hogan, Utibe Effiong

The CDC calls their misuse “one of the most serious public health problems in the United States”

Eno-Obong Effiong, Fred Ogwara, Utibe Effiong

There's an effective vaccine, but 12 states still don't require it for incoming students

Utibe Effiong