Congratulations to IDM students BYRON CHUAN, SANIYA SABNIS, and JESSICA SALERNO for receiving the Bob Yee Student Award, given to incoming students showing previous academic merit.
Professor Russel Rule Rycheck was an epidemiologist who was devoted to teaching and mentoring students. He believed that public health professionals must have a “professional bag” full of tools and skills needed to make an impact on the public’s health. This award enables MPH students to develop further skills and competencies for the professional bag. This year's winners include ROSA DE FERRARI (BCHS) and ASHYLN LANCASTER (IDM).
ASHLYN LANCASTER and HENRY MA, both IDM students, received the Owen's Fellowship from the University. A bequest of Samuel T. Owens Jr. makes fellowships available for students who show promise of high academic achievement.
NEW YORK TIMES - Infectious disease researcher ERNESTO MARQUES says about 3 percent of 1,000 pregnant Brazilian women in a recent sample were infected with Zika. “The problem’s not going away. We are still having cases. And the future of Zika babies already born is complicated by poverty and strained resources. “Most of these babies are from low socioeconomic status and rely on the public health system to provide care. It’s very difficult to mana...
YOUTUBE - IDM's Mailliard presents his research on “kick and kill” strategies at the 9th IAS Conference on HIV Science, the world's largest open scientific conference on HIV and AIDS-related issues. The work demonstrates that naïve T cells have the ability to effectively target the HIV-1 reservoir, highlighting the importance of directing HIV-1 curative strategies towards the induction of de novo rather than memory HIV-1-specific CTL responses.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES - The reality of AIDS Survivor Syndrome (ASS) is now being confirmed by empirical research. On November 3, 2017, BCHS Associate Chair for Science RON STALL presented his findings on the subject in San Francisco at a provider and community town hall entitled “Research on the AIDS Survivor Syndrome: New Data from The Multi-Center AIDS Cohort Study and Voices of Survivors Themselves.”
WASHINGTON POST - Local transmission seems to have come to a standstill, with one suspected case in Texas and one case confirmed in Florida. Herd immunity may be preventing more big outbreaks. But if Zika behaves like other arboviruses, it will probably stick around. They tend to be cyclical, says Pitt Public Health researcher ERNESTO MARQUES. “You have big booms, then they drop. Then a few years later, they come back again.”
PITTWIRE - When a mysterious illness suddenly emerged in his Brazilian hometown, IDM researcher ERNESTO MARQUES mobilized with colleagues to decode its unknowns. The work may help infectious-disease researchers stop or stall new epidemics. His story begins on page 18.
ACCEPTANCE JOURNEYS PITTSBURGH is a Pitt Public Health photo-story project where community members share stories of love and acceptance for their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) friends and family. The Pennsylvania Department of Health invited us to host a pop-up exhibit on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, as part of the commonwealth’s LGBTQ History month activities. The display was in Strawberry Square in downtown Harrisburg
This September, the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology recognized student research poster winners at the annual IDM research day. Students winners were awarded prizes in various categories during the next day's IDM annual meeting and picnic at North Park.