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New data shows vaccinations uneven at Allegheny County’s public and parochial schools

The Allegheny County Health Department is currently working with the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health to create a strategic plan that will draw on the immunization data provided in a recent school immunization report. The report shows that nearly a third of schools in the county have vaccination rates below the county’s 95% target threshold.

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Deakings graduates from ADVANCER program

Jason Deakings, PhD, MSPH, assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences, recently graduated from the Institute for Clinical Research Education's ADVANCER Program, a yearlong career development program for early-career faculty and researchers.

Zoe Mistrale Hendrickson, PhD, associate professor of behavioral and community health sciences, and Sanghamitra Das, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology

Across disciplines and borders, Pitt researchers tackle questions of data, power and health

A conversation about shared research interests sparked a new collaboration between public health researcher Zoe Mistrale Hendrickson, PhD, and anthropologist Sanghamitra Das, PhD. Working with partners in Nepal and India, the researchers are examining the ethical, legal and social dimensions of reproductive health data governance.

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