INGRID GODFREY (IDM), pictured, and CLAY COOK (BCHS), both Peace Corp Volunteers in Moldova, were delighted to receive the care packages sent by friends via the Center for Global Health. The boxes were filled with cards and small, non-perishable items like candy, magazines, lightweight books, and small personal care items.
PITTSBURGH COURIER - Coordinating health services in African American barbershops. Documenting the daily life of Latino immigrants. Exploring strategies to reduce gun violence. Building academic-community partnerships. These are some of the initiatives of the CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY (CHE) at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. The center has a goal to reduce the major causes of excess mortality among underserved popu...
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE - From dialects and colloquialisms to food and beyond, there is too much diversity among Latinos for one box. That reminder is one of the riches resulting from Ojo Latino. The photographic exhibit, running April 10-24 in the Pitt Public Health Commons, will kick off with a presentation on 4/10, 2 to 3 p.m., in A115.
CAMILO RUIZ, a Colombian, is studying for advanced degrees in public health (BCHS) and anthropology. Wit...
REUTERS HEALTH - College students in the U.S. who say their campus is welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are less likely to be victims of sexual assaults at school. Researchers found that students who perceived their campus as an inclusive environment for LGBT people were significantly less likely to be the victims of sexual assault. "I believe this study provides proof of concept for how environment may influence sexual ...
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BCHS doctoral student SARA BAUMANN, co-author Pema Lhaki, and advisor JESSIE BURKE will present a poster at the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in Atlanta in June. The title is "Preliminary Lessons from Using Collaborative Filmmaking in Public Health Research: A Pilot Study of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Nepal." Baumann will also present a series of short documentaries highlighting different menstrual experiences.
TIFFANY GARY-WEBB and ELIZABETH FELTER of Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences have been awarded a two-year contract to evaluate a Diabetes Prevention Pilot Project for Feeding America. They will be helping to determine the feasibility of offering DPP to people at risk of diabetes who receive food from a food bank.
HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE – Doctoral student TEAGEN O’MALLEY (BCHS '18) and faculty co-authors examine the Pittsburgh Homicide Review Group to evaluate how academic–community partnerships can enhance public health research, encourage translation of research into practice, and support a data-driven approach to improving community health and well-being in "Preventing Violence: A Public Health Participatory Approach to Homicide Reviews."
Congratulations to MPH students SHANNON HUGHES (BCHS '17) and KALI STALL (BCHS '17) on their new positions at the Consumer Health Coalition, a leading consumer health advocacy organization in Southwestern Pennsylvania--where they'll join fellow MPH alumna KATIE HOLLER (BCHS '16).
Four BCHS students have recently been awarded travel scholarships: SARA BAUMANN, the Dr. and Mrs. Ryonosuke Shiono (Nationality Rooms) Scholarship; LYCIA NEUMANN, a Global Health Travel Award and theTinker summer pre-dissertation grant from Center for Latin American Studies; CYNDY SALTER, the Ruth Crawford Mitchell Memorial (Nationality Rooms) Scholarship; and MPH/MID student KATIE SIVES, a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship.
INSIDE HIGHER ED- "If sexual assault prevention efforts solely focus on heterosexual violence, they may invalidate sexual- and gender-minority people's assault experiences and be ineffective for them," said BCHS doctoral candidate ROBERT COULTER. "To overcome this, existing programs could be augmented to explicitly address homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and racism. And new interventions could be created specifically for sexual, gender, racial ...
Dozens of Pitt Public Health grads from the capital area gathered at Penn Social during the 2017 ASPPH annual meeting, joining Dean Burke and host faculty for hearty conversations and refreshments. If the forecast of snow scared you away, we missed you! Access our photo albums anytime at www.publichealth.pitt.edu/flickr.
HUFFINGTON POST - “When you ask adult survivors of domestic violence when they experienced their first abusive relationship, the majority will tell you it was during adolescence. That really speaks to the importance of prevention work in those middle and high school years,” says BCHS' ELIZABETH MILLER. “It’s really complicated for parents to monitor what is going on."
BBC - "We do not yet know which came first - the social media use or the perceived social isolation," said co-author and BCHS associate professor ELIZABETH MILLER. "It's possible that young adults who initially felt socially isolated turned to social media. Or it could be that their increased use of social media somehow led to feeling isolated from the real world."
Professor Steven Albert, Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, is the newly appointed Philip B. Hallen Endowed Chair in Community Health and Social Justice, recognizing the exceptional quality and importance of his career-long commitment to conducting research intended to improve the health and functioning of vulnerable populations, his teaching, service and leadership, and his dedication to health equity.
Assistant professor TODD BEAR has been appointed to the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) national workgroup which provides oversight for the BRFSS through annual reviews and recommendations concerning the content of the survey, sample design modifications, and protocol adjustments. Congratulations, Todd!