October 2, 2024
Psychology may be a surprisingly popular major, but supporters say it's a no-brainer
COVID-19, which seemed to spark more interest in psychology, also caused an influx of interest in the already-growing health-related fields, Mara Koperwas, director of undergraduate curriculum said.
September 30, 2024
Is the mpox outbreak abroad a threat to the U.S.?
“Yes, there is a risk that this could become global,” said Jean Nachega, associate professor of epidemiology. “We saw it before, and there’s no reason not to see it again.”
September 25, 2024
U.S. Department of Defense Awards Pitt $100M to continue transformative trauma trials
“The strength of the LITES network lies in our partnerships with dozens of trauma centers dedicated to providing the best possible life-saving care to the communities they serve,” said coprincipal investigator Stephen Wisniewski, professor of epidemiology.
September 23, 2024
Will the next pandemic be a self-fulfilling prophecy? A leading epidemiologist and onetime Pitt dean has thoughts
In a recent issue of the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, through Johns Hopkins University Press, dean Emeritus Burke looks back at the 1977 Russian flu H1N1 pandemic and its origins, seeing it as an eerie specter that humans are capable of repeating.
September 23, 2024
Meet 2024 Porter Prize awardee Peter Hotez
Since his high school days, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, has considered University of Pittsburgh virologist Dr. Jonas Salk his personal hero for developing the first safe and effective vaccine for polio in 1955.
September 18, 2024
New efforts to combat anti-science rhetoric and encourage vaccines topic of Pitt panel
“Any decline we’re seeing in vaccination rates is concerning,” said Theresa Chapple-McGruder, director of the Center for Health Equity and associate professor of health policy and management.
September 17, 2024
US COVID-19 rates oscillate every six months
“The COVID-19 winter waves are consistent with that of other respiratory viruses, but the existence of a repeated additional surge during the summer was unexpected,” said senior author Donald S. Burke, M.D., dean emeritus.
September 13, 2024
Faculty trio cited among top female scientists – For yet another year
Data analytics company Research.com has again ranked three School of Public Health faculty members among their annual list of top 1,000 female scientists.
September 12, 2024
More women had their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned
“It looks like the data they used were able to break things down by state, which is nice and something we were unable to do with the data we used,” said Jacqueline Ellison assistant professor of health policy and management.
September 10, 2024
Path to public health: Vice Dean Jeanine Buchanich
Jeanine Buchanich, PhD, MPH, MEd, started her journey as an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, where she traversed a winding path to her new role as the vice dean of Pitt Public Health.
September 9, 2024
Hundreds of places in the US said racism was a public health crisis. What’s changed?
“If we’re not going to name racism in the first place, then we’re not going to start to develop solutions to address it,” said Dara Mendez, associate professor of epidemiology.
September 5, 2024
Tiffany Gary-Webb named Provost Faculty Fellow
Pitt’s Office of the Provost has announced that Tiffany Gary-Webb, professor of epidemiology, has been named Provost Faculty Fellow working with John Wallace.
September 4, 2024
Meredith Hughes chosen for new State Health Policy Fellowship
Meredith Hughes, assistant professor of health policy and management, is one of three inaugural fellows in the pilot State Health Policy Fellowship (SHPF) program, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced.
September 4, 2024
Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’
Donald S. Burke, dean emeritus and distinguished university professor emeritus, explains how an overreaction to a new flu strain led to an unintentional lab leak that triggered the 1977 flu pandemic.
September 3, 2024
More than half of HIV-positive Americans are 50+. Figuring out care is complex
Linda Frank, professor of infectious diseases and microbiology, advocates for routine testing for HIV by primary care physicians.