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BSPH junior Grace Osborn

Students launch resource locker to support Pitt Public Health community

When Grace Osborne, a junior at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, noticed peers struggling to access basic necessities, she decided to act.

Pitt student Ore Fawole

Storytelling meets science

Pitt double-major Ore Fawole has long been passionate about film, an interest she shared closely with her dad and one that shaped how she thinks about storytelling and its influence. When he received a kidney and liver transplant during her junior year of high school, that connection between narrative and health took on new meaning, eventually inspiring her first scientific publication as a lead author, guided by BCHS faculty member Beth Hoffman.

Sstudents Josh Goltsman, left, and Nathan Raabe, right

Interprofessional experience at the Hub

For students like Nathan Raabe, a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and researcher in the Department of Medicine, Pitt's Vaccination and Health Connection Hub represents a practical application of decades worth of scientific research from many professional backgrounds, or what he calls "translational medicine."