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Grubs Receives the 2015 Craig Award for Teaching Excellence

Robin Grubs, director of the genetic counseling program, won the award for her dedication to her students and her constant pursuit of the most comprehensive and current training. 

Mallinckrodt Grant Program

The University of Pittsburgh may submit two grant applications to the Mallinckrodt Grant Program of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation. A grant from this program provides $60,000 per year in direct costs for three years.  

Congratulations Marques Moore!

Marques Moore (April 2015 MHA Candidate MBM64@pitt.edu) has accepted a position as an IT Project Manager at Houston Methodist. 

Congratulations Jogs Singh!

Jogs Singh (April 2015 MHA Cand JOS147@pitt.edu) has accepted a position as an Associate Project Mgr in Program Development & Population Health Mgmt at Allegheny Health Network 

Congratulations Caitlin Thayer!

Caitlin Thayer (April 2015 MHA Cand cmt39@pitt.edu) has accepted a position as an Associate Project Mgr in Program Development & Population Health Mgmt at Allegheny Health Network 

Summer 2015 Residencies Practica Match Results

he Department of Health Policy & Management is pleased to announce the attached match results for Summer 2015 Residencies & Practica. 

Congratulations Preston Allred!

Preston Allred (2015 MHA Candidate) PKA2@pitt.edu has accepted a one year administrative fellowship at the newly rebranded HonorHealth System 

NIH Biosketch training

Got questions about how to use NCBI’s SciENcv to produce the new NIH biosketch?  

Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools

Center for Health Equity Announces Membership to Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools 

Each Hour Watching Television Increases Diabetes Risk, Pitt Public Health Finds

 A well-known lifestyle intervention already proven to increase physical activity levels and decrease weight has now been shown to successfully reduce participants’ time spent sitting and watching television, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis discovered. 

Faculty Scholars Program

The Howards Hughes Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation have partnered to establish the Faculty Scholars Program.  

Successful Housing Program Selects Second Replication Site

Prevention Point Philadelphia will replicate a housing first, harm reduction model of care that was created by The Open Door, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit that has shown that its services improve adherence to HIV treatment through the provision of stable housing. With funding support from AIDS United and the MAC AIDS Fund, The Open Door will provide a sub-grant and technical assistance to Prevention Point Philadelphia to initiate its own ho... 

RAMP to K Program

The ICRE’s RAMP to K program http://www.icre.pitt.edu/ramp/index.html assists trainees in writing a competitive K award, and is geared towards fellows/very early faculty who might be planning to write a K award in the coming year.  

Updates on Public Access to Federally Funded Research

There has been a flurry of activity as federal agencies have been completing their plans for public access to federally funded research. HSLS will help you keep up on it. 

NIH Guide to Peer Review

Insider' Guide to Peer Review fpr Applicants 

Dollars and Sense: The Value of Asking for What You Want

Thinking of negotiating salary? Learn what you're worth in the current job market on April 7 at 6:30, 2017 Cathedral. Register at www.publichealth.pitt.edu/negotiationregistration. 

Biostatistics Student Wins National Award

Xiaotian (Steven) Gao, a Masters student in the Department of Biostatistics at Pitt Public Health is the 2015 and inaugural winner of the Lingzi Liu memorial award.   

Notice of Upcoming Accreditation

The Graduate School of Public Health is accredited by the Council for Education on Public Health (CEPH). The preliminary self-study for our 2015 re-accreditation was submitted to CEPH on December 18th, 2014. Our accreditation site visit is scheduled for May 18-20.  

Congratulations Michael Aaronson!

The Department of Health Policy & Management is pleased to announce that Michael Aaronson (2015 MHA Candidate) MLA47@pitt.edu has accepted a one-year Graduate Health Administration Training Program Fellowship at VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. 

Congratulations 2015 UAB Case Competition team

The Department of Health Policy & Management is pleased to announce that the Pitt team of Second Year MHAs Marques Moore, Preston Allred and Brian Washburn (& First Year MHA observer Bill Buetler) was one of six finalists in the UAB Case Competition. Congratulations to them and their faculty advisor Anna Voelker. 

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This Pitt researcher is using data to fight the opioid epidemic  

This Pitt researcher is using data to fight the opioid epidemic

PITTWIRE - Jeanine Buchanich, a research associate professor in Biostatistics, is taking a big-picture approach to figuring out what programs will best tackle the problem.Buchanich has evaluated public health interventions as varied as community-level training for first responders on naloxone use a... (07/19/2022)
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Two public health leaders on COVID-19 and what's next 

Two public health leaders on COVID-19 and what's next

PITTWIRE - Dean Lichtveld and Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, sat down to discuss lessons learned from the U.S. response to the pandemic and the future of the nation's health. As the United States settles into a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, mas... (05/10/2022)
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Advocating for affordable health care landed these Pitt people invitations to the White House 

Advocating for affordable health care landed these Pitt people invitations to the White House

PITTWIRE - HPM's Amy Raslevich received an invitation to attend President Joe Biden’s April 5 signing of the Executive Order on Strengthening Access to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid at the White House.  The event also marked President Obama’s first public return to the White House since leav... (04/06/2022)