“My advice to other parents whose children are heading off to experience the world on an IE3 Global internship would be to learn what you can about the culture they will be immersed in so you can help them to be safe, stay in contact with them and they will likely need more money than you think,” says Public Health student Hilary Armatas’ mother, Laurie.
Tag: Health Promotion and Health Behavior
Students, faculty and staff at Oregon State University have largely embraced a new policy that prohibits smoking on the Corvallis campus, but the policy change hasn’t completely eliminated secondhand smoke exposure, new research shows.
Find out what “vaping” means as CPHHS Assistant Professor Kari-Lyn Sakuma explains – and demystifies – emerging tobacco products and their effect on health.
“I am looking at how new and emerging tobacco products are impacting African American youth and young adults. I want to know what they know about these products, how they learned about these products, how they feel about these products and what kinds of marketing are being used by tobacco companies to reach this population,” Kari-Lyn says.
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Video: Exploring Public Health
With a degree in Public Health, alumni can choose to attend graduate school or head right into the work force where they can work in health promotion and health behavior, develop programs such as in diabetes prevention or HIV awareness, or focus on health management and policy where they could serve the leaders and managers and run the programs.
Health Promotion and Health Behavior student Amedee Ngarukiye traveled to Nyon, Switzerland through SIT Study Abroad programs where he focused on global health and development policy.