May 13, 2024
Dara Méndez and Amy Hartman selected as Health Sciences Ascending Star Awardees
Congratulations to Dara Méndez, associate director of the center for health equity and associate professor of epidemiology and Amy Hartman, associate professor of infectious diseases and microbiology, on receiving 2024 Ascending Star Awards.
May 7, 2024
Staff Spotlight: The Many Faces of Nicole Leckenby
There is more than one Nicole Leckenby.
One of them is on staff in the School of Public Health, where she is a post-award grants administrator for the Department of Epidemiology. Another is vice president of the Pleasant Hills Borough Council. Another is “soccer mom” to sons Liam and Colin, and wife to husband Brian, an information technology professional. Then there’s the one who writes children’s books.
May 6, 2024
Announcing ASPPH's public health education enhancement and development (PHEED) grant recipients
Congratulations to the Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) program on being awarded one of the inaugural Public Health Education Enhancement and Development (PHEED) grants!
May 3, 2024
Grant funds study of inflammation’s effect on heart, brain health
Anne B. Newman, MD, MPH, former professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology, is coprincipal investigator on a $1.2 million, four-year study being funded by the American Heart Association.
April 30, 2024
Virus gone wild: Which wild animals carry the COVID-19 virus? An ambitious U.S. project aims to find out
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Chair Suresh Kuchipudi, and others aim to collect and analyze more than 24,000 samples from 58 wildlife species over the next 2 years.
April 29, 2024
Pitt Public Health’s 2024 graduation ceremony celebrates both undergraduate and graduate students
In an historic first, the 2024 Pitt Public Health graduation ceremony included nine graduates from the school’s Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) degree program, along with more than 240 master’s and doctoral-level graduates.
April 24, 2024
CDC grant funds vaccine-support tool
A $1 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will fund a decision-support toolkit being developed by the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL) to increase vaccine acceptance and vaccination rates.
April 23, 2024
Pitt is launching an Office of Sustainability in the Health Sciences
“The new Office of Sustainability will accelerate the transdisciplinary opportunities across the health sciences,” said Dean Maureen Lichtveld.
April 22, 2024
Africa intensifies battle against mpox as ‘alarming’ outbreaks continue
The global outbreak helped bring new attention to mpox and led to a boom in research, Jean Nachega associate professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Epidemiology says, but almost all of it came in Europe and North America.
April 22, 2024
ART Heals Pittsburgh showcases the role of community art in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Through the collaboration of professors Sara Baumann and Jessica Burke, ART Heals Pittsburgh showcases 27 artists from the greater Pittsburgh region.
April 18, 2024
Pitt researchers’ study raises concerns about risks to prescription drug supply
Katherine Callaway Kim, a Department of Health Policy and Management doctoral student, was first author of a cross-sectional study, in which a total of 571 drugs exposed to 731 supply chain issue reports were matched to 7,296 comparison medications.
April 17, 2024
Comprehensive sexuality education benefits youths, schools and communities
The team led by Dr. Sara Baumann, assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, examined the effects of a unique program working with school communities in rural Madagascar.
April 17, 2024
5 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study language abroad
Ang Le, a master’s student and FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) recipient for Haitian Creole, from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, has been awarded a Boren Fellowship to study Vietnamese in Vietnam.
April 16, 2024
Biomarkers may explain Caribbean women’s greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease
A study by led Iva Miljkovic, MD, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology, was published in the April 12 issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, a journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
April 16, 2024