Introducing the 2024-2025 Health Justice Scholars
Pitt’s Center for Health Equity welcomes a new cohort to the Health Justice Scholars Program.
Experts react to Harris’ Medicare plan for affordable home care for seniors
“Currently, Medicare only pays for in-home care for people who meet certain requirements, and usually only for a limited amount of time,” says Howard Degenholtz, professor of health policy and management.
New efforts to combat anti-science rhetoric and encourage vaccines topic of Pitt panel
“Any decline we’re seeing in vaccination rates is concerning,” said Theresa Chapple-McGruder, director of the Center for Health Equity and associate professor of health policy and management.
More women had their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned
“It looks like the data they used were able to break things down by state, which is nice and something we were unable to do with the data we used,” said Jacqueline Ellison assistant professor of health policy and management.
Meredith Hughes chosen for new State Health Policy Fellowship
Meredith Hughes, assistant professor of health policy and management, is one of three inaugural fellows in the pilot State Health Policy Fellowship (SHPF) program, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced.
2 Pitt graduate students were named public health ambassadors
Master's candidates Jaia Gallegos and Prathiksha Sivakumar, were selected for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health’s (ASPPH) 2024-25 This Is Public Health Ambassador Cohort.
Center for Health Equity director named
An epidemiologist and public health leader has been appointed associate professor of health policy and management and director of the Center for Health Equity (CHE) at the School of Public Health. She is Theresa Chapple-McGruder, PhD, MPH, who will assume her new role at Pitt on Aug. 1.
Learning to “aim high” within male-dominated fields in public health
During a Breaking Barriers: Women in Oncology discussion, Lindsay Sabik, associate professor of health policy and management discussed her research on disparities in the health care system, learning to navigate the field as a woman and mother and advice she would give to women just beginning to work in her field.
Faculty honored for teaching excellence
Two faculty members have received special recognition for their teaching expertise.
Remembering Kevin Altomari
Kevin Altomari, founder and president of the Dawn Gideon Foundation, passed away April 24 at the age of 68.
Altomari had a close relationship with the Department of Health Policy and Management, awarding two scholarships each year and co-sponsoring the annual symposium named for his late wife Dawn Gideon.
The couple met in 1972 and were married for 36 years before Dawn’s passing from breast cancer in 2015.
CDC grant funds vaccine-support tool
A $1 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will fund a decision-support toolkit being developed by the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL) to increase vaccine acceptance and vaccination rates.
Pitt researchers’ study raises concerns about risks to prescription drug supply
Katherine Callaway Kim, a Department of Health Policy and Management doctoral student, was first author of a cross-sectional study, in which a total of 571 drugs exposed to 731 supply chain issue reports were matched to 7,296 comparison medications.
Graduating HPM students reflect on their time at Pitt Public Health
Before they walk across the stage at Carnegie Music Hall and shake hands with Dean Lichtveld at commencement, several HPM students reflected on their time at Pitt. Though their stories are as unique as each individual telling them, common threads tie these and all graduating students together: comradery, togetherness, perseverance and growth, both personal and professional.
Greater numbers of younger people got permanent contraception after Dobbs decision, study finds
“Findings from this research highlight the indirect effects of Dobbs on the reproductive autonomy of young people,” said lead study author Dr. Jackie Ellison, assistant professor of health policy and management.
Pitt Med celebrates Women’s History Month
Professor of medicine Jenny Lo-Ciganic sees Julie Donohue, chair and professor of health policy and management, as a role model.