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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.
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.
Pitt researchers study menstrual health interventions in Nepal
In remote regions of Nepal, some women and girls are still forced to sleep in isolated huts or avoid kitchens, water taps and temples while menstruating due to cultural stigma and religious beliefs surrounding menstrual “impurity.”