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Pitt Public Health partner SisterFriend featured for #LetsMakeASEEN

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Menstruation is a suppressed topic in our society, it is usually a subject whispered about in school hallways, complained about in the bathroom or completely ignored in the workplace. Tamara Whiting has set out to normalize it with SisterFriend Inc., dedicated specifically to menstrual advocacy and product distribution. "Pitt Public Health has been an outstanding partner to SisterFriend" says Whiting, and will host a SisterFriend author presenta... 

Creppage says real-time information about stamp bags could serve as early warning of new illegal drugs

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MEDICAL LIFE SCIENCES NEWS - In two years, fentanyl went from nonexistent to found in more than 1 in 7 stamp bags. This new information "could be used to inform educational campaigns, allocate limited resources and devise prevention strategies," says KATHLEEN CREPPAGE (EPI '18) while EPI's ANTHONY FABIO added that the work "is an important step in developing multi-disciplinary tools to quickly identify current and future sources of new drugs tha... 

Dean Burke on drug abuse trends

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THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION - The United States is the only developed nation in the word in which life spans are declining, in large part due to the scourge of overdose deaths. The last time life expectancy declined for two straight years was 1962 and 1963 during a flu epidemic. The drug abuse trends didn’t start yesterday. Drug fatalities had been doubling every eight years from 1979 to 2015, reported Dean DONALD BURKE. The U.S. has 5 percent of th... 

Newman gives her take on aging

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KAISER HEALTH NEWS - At a time when women increasingly live into their 90s and more men reach their 80s, the art of aging requires work, thought, planning, and, yes, spontaneity. “I don’t think we give enough respect to what it takes to age well — until it happens to you,” said EPI's ANNE NEWMAN. “It’s a balance between fighting it and accepting it that requires a great deal of grace and courage.”  

Albert and Agimi find in-person license renewal helps reduce dementia-related motor vehicle crashes

TRIB LIVE - Analyzing motor-vehicle-related hospital admissions, in-person license renewal laws and vision testing were found to dramatically reduce the number of motor vehicle accidents by drivers with dementia, according to BCHS' STEVEN ALBERT and YLL AGIMI (EPI '12) as published in Neurology.  

Pitt Public Health recognized for increased focus on LGBTQ community in research

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INSIGHT INTO DIVERSITY - The school began to seriously investigate LGBTQ health topics in the early 2000s, according to BCHS's RON STALL. “In terms of sexual minority health, a majority of public funding has always gone to HIV/AIDS research, and other disparities for [gay men] were relatively unaddressed,” he explains. “For other populations, like trans women and lesbian or bisexual populations, the basic research had never even been done.”  

Peripheral blood biomarkers of disease outcome in a monkey model of rift valley fever encephalitis.

JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY - Wonderlich, Caroline, McMillen, Walters, Reed, Barratt-Boyes, and Hartman conclude that African green monkeys are a novel and suitable model for studying the neuropathogenesis of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and for testing vaccines and therapeutics against this important emerging viral disease for which we lack both an effective human vaccine and treatment. Encephalitis and neurological disease resulting from RVF lead to death ... 

BCHS student and faculty receive Hyperion Research Award on HPC Innovation Excellence

HPC WIRE - Alum JONATHAN RAVIOTTA (BCHS '18) and BCHS's RICHARD ZIMMERMAN are members of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center that received the Hyperion Research Award on High Performance Computing (HPC) Innovation Excellence for their papers using agent-based modeling to examine the effect of choice of influenza vaccine types on vaccine uptake.  

BIOST students earn ENAR award for distinguished student paper

LI ZHU (BIOST) was first author on the paper "Bayesian indicator variable selection to incorporate multi-layer overlapping group structure in multi-omics applications" that received one of the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region’s (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Awards. Zhu will present the paper in the 2018 ENAR Spring Meeting in Atlanta, GA on March 27. BIOST student TIANZHOU MA, and BIOST faculty, GEORGE TSENG, ar... 

Monyei awarded 2017 Dr. Edgar and Lauraine Duncan Endowed Scholarship

ABIGAIL MONYEI (HPM) received this year's Dr. Edgar and Lauraine Duncan Scholarship which helps provide support for resources such as books, fees, stipends, or travel.  

EPI student receives the James W. Knox Memorial Scholarship to research HIV in South Africa

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KELSEA LASORDA (EPI) received the James W. Knox Memorial Scholarship, Nationality Room Scholarship, to participate in research on preventing mother to child transmission of HIV in Cape Town, South Africa in summer 2017. The purpose of Nationality Room Scholarship awards is to enable Pitt students to have an in-depth immersion in another culture for at least five weeks. Lasorda will receive $3,500 to supplement her trip to South Africa.  

Kelsey receives alumnae Achievement Award from Mount Holyoke College

EPI's SHERYL KELSEY was recognized for being a role model for women pursuing public health careers in statistics and epidemiology. Kelsey dedicated her career to the research and design of clinical trials and registries in the field of cardiology, diabetes, women’s health, neurology, and ophthalmology, demonstrating the highest standards of scientific inquiry in a truly collaborative spirit.  

Pittsburgh is first stop for memorial for opioid overdose victims

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WESA-FM – “Prescribed to Death: A Memorial to the Victims of the Opioid Crisis” has arrived at the University of Pittsburgh in the William Pitt Student Union. A machine carves a new pill on site every 24 minutes to represent the frequency of fatal overdoses. The wall will include up to 22,000 pills—each engraved with the face of someone who died of an opioid overdose. It will be open to the public on Tuesday 2/6.  

Gellad speaks on Trumps abandonment of promise to lower drug prices during the state of the union address

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VOX – In his first State of the Union address, Donald Trump abandoned his pledges to bring down the cost of America’s medicines. Lowering the out-of-pocket costs that normal people feel is worthwhile but that won’t bring down the gross costs of prescription drugs. “They’re just going to raise premiums, or try to offset it another way,” HPM’s WALID GELLAD said of insurance plans. “Someone’s gonna pay the price if the price doesn’t come down.”  

Goldstein on the EU's distortion of public health and effects on US agricultural produce

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THE HILL - The European Union's unclear definitions of the Precautionary Principles allows them to ban trade of goods such as beef previously treated with growth hormones and GMO grains without demonstration that such goods cause any health risks. EOH's BERNARD GOLDSTEIN says, "The US is not without unfair trade practices. But, in contrast to the EU, we do not rely on distorting public health science as a means to wrap greed in a green flag."  

Roberts analyzes Maryland's global budget program

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THE COMMONWEALTH FUND - HPM'S ERIC ROBERTS examined changes in hospital and primary care utilization among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries in Maryland and control counties outside the state. The researchers aimed to pinpoint utilization changes linked solely to the global budget intervention and not related to prior trends. To this end, the authors compared utilization before Maryland launched the program and during the first two years of... 

Amid opioid crisis, Frank addresses Titusville community

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TITUSVILLE HERALD - Community members and students from Pitt's Titusville campus gathered to hear IDM's LINDA FRANK discuss drug misuse versus drug abuse, the opioid epidemic's relation to to the spread of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, available prevention and treatment strategies, and the implications for health professionals, families, community members, and local organizations.   

Pittsburgh forges a new future, remaking iconic steel town into a modern innovation factory

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“It’s a different world. UPMC, CMU, and University of Pittsburgh changed everything,” said Mark Cuban, referring to Pittsburgh’s marquee institutions like a native. “It went from Rust Belt to AI and Med Belt. I’m so proud of what has happened. Now it’s a young vibrant city that has an amazing workforce.”    

Special Coverage: GeekWire HQ2 in Pittsburgh

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GEEKWIRE - is putting it's own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February - reporting on the people, technologies, and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. Pittsburgh is poised to become a global tech hub in one of the country's most livable metropolitan areas.  

Gellad on why drug prices haven't lowered yet

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STAT - Congressional efforts to lower drug prices are at a standstill. Powerful health industry players disagree about how to move forward. Every group pushes it's own agenda and strategies, making it unlikely that crushing drug prices will change any time soon. "It is correct that one of the reasons patients are feeling such high prices is because they have to pay coinsurance and deductibles, says HPM's WALID GELLAD. "And it's true that pharma ... 

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This Pitt researcher is using data to fight the opioid epidemic  

This Pitt researcher is using data to fight the opioid epidemic

PITTWIRE - Jeanine Buchanich, a research associate professor in Biostatistics, is taking a big-picture approach to figuring out what programs will best tackle the problem.Buchanich has evaluated public health interventions as varied as community-level training for first responders on naloxone use a... (07/19/2022)
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Two public health leaders on COVID-19 and what's next 

Two public health leaders on COVID-19 and what's next

PITTWIRE - Dean Lichtveld and Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, sat down to discuss lessons learned from the U.S. response to the pandemic and the future of the nation's health. As the United States settles into a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, mas... (05/10/2022)
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Advocating for affordable health care landed these Pitt people invitations to the White House 

Advocating for affordable health care landed these Pitt people invitations to the White House

PITTWIRE - HPM's Amy Raslevich received an invitation to attend President Joe Biden’s April 5 signing of the Executive Order on Strengthening Access to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid at the White House.  The event also marked President Obama’s first public return to the White House since leav... (04/06/2022)