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Alumni Features Public Health

MPH alum will use his two passions –storytelling and policy –to write his future in government

“I sort of live and breathe policy. Policy takes ideas and values, philosophies and innovation and attempts to mark those things that exist in a realm of imagination and thought and emotion, and then to map them into society in a very real, lived way.”

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Community Engagement Public Health Students

Thinking globally, acting locally

Global health MPH student set to make lasting change in her community.

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Features Research Students

Study abroad during a global pandemic? It only seems impossible until you do it.

Global health grad students in the CPHHS participated in virtual study abroad experience due to the pandemic’s limitations on travel.

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Health Tips Public Health

Bon voyage

Professor Chunhuei Chi shares his expert advice on traveling as safely as possible.

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News Public Health

Public health professor shares COVID-19 expertise to help keep people safe

Prior to 2020, Professor Chunhuei Chi in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences had only been interviewed in the media twice. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chunhuei has logged 123 interviews with journalists from around the world, sometimes fielding five requests per day. On top of that, he has been a speaker on […]

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Domestic violence in India linked with higher rates of women seeking permanent sterilization

Women in India who experience domestic violence are significantly more likely to seek permanent sterilization as a means of birth control than women who are not victims of abuse, a recent study by Oregon State University found. The probability of victims of domestic violence choosing sterilization — i.e. tubal ligation, or “tying the tubes” — […]