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2025 Public Health Practice Showcase
The 2025 Public Health Practice Showcase featured 15 graduate students representing each of Pitt Public Health’s seven departments, who presented work done in collaboration with community partners.
Pitt Public Health honors alumni at awards ceremony
The University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health is proud to announce the recipients of its 2025 Alumni Awards, honoring graduates whose achievements exemplify the school’s mission to advance health and well-being locally and globally.
‘Entertainment does have the power to move audiences’: USC study unpacks the real-life impacts of ‘The Pitt’
Beth Hoffman, an assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences, knows the power of television to influence medical decisions. In February 2023, after her sister, Emily, was gravely injured when she was hit by a car while walking home in Point Breeze, her family felt at peace removing her from life support and donating her organs – not only because the organ donation box was checked on her driver’s license but because Emily had discussed the issue with her sister while watching an episode of “ER.”