The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health recruited hundreds of local participants and analyzed data for an international study that has significantly expanded the number of genetic factors known to play a role in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of vision loss among people age 50 and older.
The Center for Health Equity (CHE) invites any faculty member or student doing research to utilize its Community Research Advisory Board (CRAB) for assistance.
It seems intuitive: Want to do a good study to improve patient care? Then use real-world evidence to find out what works and what doesn’t – and how to fix it. But without common standards for conducting such studies it can be difficult to gather the support needed to make research-based changes.
Sally Morton , Ph.D., professor and chair of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and director of the Compara...
The Health Innovators Fellowship is designed as a competition and a learning experience. Fellows form a team and pitch technology ideas for an opportunity to win $5,000.
UNIVERSITY TIMES - Radiation researcher Niel Wald , professor emeritus in the Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, died Nov. 28, 2015, at the Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Squirrel Hill. He was 90.
Wald’s research focused on the health effects of radiation. His early work included the study of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as radiation exposure in nucl...
Marian Jarlenski, PhD, MPH, has been appointed as a scholar in the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Career Development Program (K12HD043441).
BCHS 2515: Worksite Health Promotion, Dr. Elizabeth Felter, Thursdays 11-1, 2 Credits, Spring 2016
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For MPH students to develop skills to add to their professional tool bag. Get details at publichealth.pitt.edu/scholarships and apply by December 4.
Velpandi Ayyavoo , PhD, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, has agreed to serve as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Pitt Public Health, taking the reins from Todd Reinhart, ScD, who will be leaving the University of Pittsburgh to take a position as Dean of Sciences and Health Professions at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. The associate dean for faculty affairs oversees all faculty activities including the appointments...
HPM is pleased to announce that MHA candidate Kevin MacDonald has accepted the UPMC Health Services Division Administrative Fellowship in Allegheny County.
HPM is pleased to announce that MHA candidate Adam Kramer has accepted the UPMC Health Services Division Administrative Fellowship in Erie County.
HPM is pleased to announce that MHA candidate Bill Beutler has accepted the Cleveland Clinic Administrative Fellowship.
HPM is pleased to announce that MHA candidate Eva Harpst has accepted the OhioHealth Administrative Fellowship in Columbus.
Faculty member Dr. Jeanine Buchanich was interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer about the increase in drug overdoses in Pennsylvania.
Ron Stall, PhD, Professor in BCHS and Director of the Center for LGBT Health Research, was featured in the Pittsburgh Trib Total Media for his HIV study.
Given the intensity of the overdose epidemic, Dean Burke has launched a new Pilot Grant Program entitled Advancing Research on Opioid Drug and Heroin Addiction. Awards will be for $25,000 for one year, and we expect to fund 3 projects. Projects should address important aspects of opioid drug and/or heroin drug addiction and build on existing studies in the Graduate School of Public Health, adding new science by obtaining novel measures or outcome...
Graduate students from different disciplines can apply to JHF's 2016 QI2T Health Innovators Fellowship and/or the Fellowship on Death and Dying by Friday, December 11, 2015.
Graduate students can apply to the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's summer internship program by February 3rd: http://www.qitcenter.org/2016-jhf-summer-internship.html
Statistical Inference on Residual Life (Springer, 2014) by Dr. Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Professor and Vice Chair of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, received great reviews in the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, and Biometrics.
Read more at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/biom.12321/full.