Words matter. That’s the message pediatrician, journalist and public health advocate Dr. Richard Besser shared during a public lecture and private audience with College of Public Health and Human Sciences students in April.
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To ensure the university’s students, faculty and staff are doing their part to be the healthiest they can be, the CPHHS’ Public Health Club hosted a Public Health Fair in April in conjunction with the American Public Health Association’s National Public Health Week.
“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.
“If I do my job correctly, I can help facilitate not only dissemination research, but I could tap into something that would help us universally improve health care delivery and quality,” says CPHHS alum Chase Cameron, MPH ’13.
People with disabilities have unmet medical needs should be recognized as a health disparity group so more attention can be directed to improving their quality of life, a team of policy researchers has found.
“A large portion of my research uses spatial exposure assessment methods to determine the health effects associated with exposure to air pollution, ranging from adverse birth outcomes to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases to cancers,” says Assistant Professor Perry Hystad.