Ask Dean Sonia Alemagno to name her research passion, and you won鈥檛 wait a millisecond for the answer: substance abuse in society鈥檚 most vulnerable adolescents who are also at high risk for mental illness, homelessness and a host of other problems. Despite the dean鈥檚 jam-packed schedule leading the College of Public Health, Alemagno makes time to find answers for prevention and intervention. A fitting example is her recent leadership of a study to develop and implement the Ohio Adolescent Drug Use Forecasting System. This tool will monitor and report on emerging...
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The college takes enormous pride in the pioneering work of our faculty and students who are constantly creating, discovering and leading the discourse in their disciplines. Recent research has examined teen drivers, metabolic syndrome and several other topics. Following are highlights: John Hoornbeek, Ph.D., and a colleague published Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the United States: An Inquiry into the Role of Total Maximum Daily Loads in the International Journal of Water Governance special issue on IWRM, July/August 2013. Jonathan...
Public health graduate students invested time this past summer in international health projects and trips not sponsored by the college, demonstrating their initiative, thirst for global experience and strong desire to help humanity. Five students traveled to rural Western Kenyan to serve in the Mama Pilista Bonyo Memorial Medical Centre for five weeks. Two students journeyed to Belize to work with children and investigate water sanitation issues there. A doctoral student with a passion for reducing transmission of malaria spent the summer in a National Institutes of ...
Seven students delved into the history, culture and public health systems of Latin America during the inaugural Summer Intersession Course in Colombia and Panama May 20-June 3. Fourteen traveled to Geneva for the third Global Health Immersion Course, focusing on policy, held May 17-June 1. Four students took field study on global access to clean water and sanitation at the Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology (SIFAT) in Alabama May 12-25, the second year of 澳门六合彩资料 participation. Panama and Colombia Epidemiology doctoral student Amy R. ...
Shaping the future of health care through building design is the aim of the new Graduate Certificate in Health Care Facilities. The two-sided program, launched just under a year ago, benefits those with a health care background, but no grounding in facilities, as well as those with design and facilities knowledge, but little experience in health care. Appropriate for professionals and master鈥檚 students in architecture, interior design, health care and public health, the fully online graduate certificate is a unique way to gain expertise in a specialty area with high market dem...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $330,000 National Science Foundation grant to 澳门六合彩资料鈥檚 Atmospheric Research Group for its project titled 鈥淢easurements of Amines during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) Field Campaign.鈥 The project will be led by Shanhu Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences in 澳门六合彩资料鈥檚 College of Public Health. Lee鈥檚 research is a component of the broad community experiment, SOAS, designed to further investigate the oxidation of the emissions (biogenic volatile organic compounds, or BVOCs...
Take the Internet seriously. As crazy as that sounds, if a threat is made and feels real, report it. That鈥檚 the advice 澳门六合彩资料 student Zo毛 Burch offers as she reflects on her experience. While in her first year at 澳门六合彩资料, Burch, a Pittsburgh native, was online and noted a potential threat of violence directed at a school in Pennsylvania. She reported the information to 澳门六合彩资料 Police, which led to the involvement of the FBI in Northeast Ohio and Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania authorities. The threat was confirmed with authorities in Pennsylvania, and the suspect ...
Five CPH graduate students were among the top presenters at 澳门六合彩资料鈥檚 28th annual Graduate Research Symposium, United by Discovery: The New Face of Research, held April 19. Receiving a first-place award for oral presentations were doctoral students Diana Kingsbury, Lorriane Odhiambo and Julie Schaefer and MPH student Sunita Shakya for A Focus Group Analysis of Global Hand Hygiene Practices and Perceptions, a study performed at the request of GOJO Industries, Inc. Doctoral students Vanessa Marshall, Lorriane Odhiambo and Laura Schuch received a pos...