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Teaching and Prevention Through Quality Research

Our department is leading research and prevention activities that impact public health by training students to evaluate and respond to important public health issues in aging and chronic disease prevention, reproductive health, environmental health, and infectious diseases.

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Rebecca Thurston, PhD

Rebecca Thurston named Pitt Medicine’s associate dean for women’s health

Rebecca Thurston, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health, has long worked at the interface of multiple fields, including menopause, neuroscience, cardiology, endocrinology, psychiatry, psychology and epidemiology, and she is widely lauded as an exceptional leader of interdisciplinary research teams.

Pitt Public Health faculty member Tiffany Gary-Webb

9 Pitt affiliates were named New Pittsburgh Courier Women of Excellence

Tiffany Gary-Webb, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Health Equity, was one of nine Pitt leaders and affiliates have been recognized by the New Pittsburgh Courier as Women of Excellence for their professional achievements and contributions to the Greater Pittsburgh community.

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."