This Is Public Health Virtual Fairs – Fall 2020

ASPPH Welcomes New Fellows

Cornell: Opens Fall 2020 Semester

Johns Hopkins: Center for Communication Programs Spearheads “JHNeedsU” Campaign to Keep Campus Safe from COVID-19

Cornell: “Adaptive Testing” Quickly IDs Infections Within Social Circles

Johns Hopkins: Publishes Article – “How Can I Ask My Friends to Wear Masks? Talking to Friends, Family, Kids, and Coworkers About COVID-19 Safety”

Temple: A Look at Hybrid In-Person/Online Classrooms for Essential Courses

Texas A&M: Dean Shawn Gibbs Explains Student COVID Random Testing Program

Texas A&M: What Students Can Expect As They Return to Campus

Oregon State: Family Researcher Talks Juggling Work and Family While Staying Home

Oregon State: Researcher Breaks Down Ergonomics for the Home Office

Penn State: Association of Cardiovascular Disease and 10 Other Pre-existing Comorbidities with COVID-19 Mortality – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Yale: SalivaDirect – What You Need to Know About the New COVID-19 Test

Columbia: Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr Authors Commentary on HIV/AIDS Epidemic’s Lessons for COVID-19 Response

North Texas: Dr. Scott Walters on COVID-19 and Opioid Crisis – Coronavirus Pandemic Has Further Complicated Opioid Crisis, Experts Say

Cornell: Study Reveals Possible New Coronavirus Entry Points

Harvard: How To Stay Safe On Road Trips Amid COVID-19

Harvard: Film Empowers Kids To Be Heroes During COVID-19 Pandemic

Virginia Tech: Community-driven Mobile Market Offers Fresh, Local Produce to Increase Healthy Food Options in Area with Limited Food Access

Rutgers: Faculty Partner with University Instructional Designers to Develop New Jersey’s Contact Tracing Curriculum

AUB: K2P Center Issues New Report on Safeguarding Human Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Washington: Failure to ‘Flatten the Curve’ May Kill More People Than We Thought

Northwestern: COVID Ventilator Patients Can Have Permanent Nerve Damage

UNC: Study Finds Linking Trump’s Name to COVID-19 Messages Reduces Their Effectiveness

UNC: Alumnus Launches Fund to Aid Native American Communities During Pandemic

Florida: NEJM Perspective – Public Health Decision-Making During Covid-19 — Fulfilling the CDC Pledge to the American People

Texas A&M: U.S. COVID Cases Pass 6 Million, With Infections Rising Among Youths

Texas A&M: New COVID Testing Strategy Could Be “A Game-Changer” for Harris County

Johns Hopkins: New Survey from the Center for Communication Programs: Face Mask Use and Social Distancing in Cameroon

Johns Hopkins: Faculty Publish Commentary in The Lancet: “COVID-19 Vaccines: Early Success and Remaining Challenges”

Arkansas: Gives Update on COVID-19 Forecasts for Arkansas

UCLA: Dr. Jonathan Fielding in The Hill – “Dissecting Physical vs. Social Distancing”

UCLA: Dr. David Eisenman in the Los Angeles Times: “It’s Fire Season. Here Are Three Ways to Prepare Financially”

Yale: Wastewater Sampling Project Used Throughout CT to Predict COVID-19

WashU: First Study of Early Pandemic Interventions in the U.S. Shows Benefits of Social Distancing Key

Vanderbilt: Students Dive in to Support COVID-19 Response

UAB: Dr. Eric Ford and the Survey Research Unit Prove Instrumental to the Success of NIH’s Serosurvey to Measure Undetected COVID-19 Cases

UAB: State of COVID-19 in Alabama

Arizona: Students on the Health Promotion Ambassadors Team Will Support Safe Reentry to Campus

Vanderbilt: COVID Infections in Health Workers Often Go Undetected

Florida International: Alumna Focuses on Community Health During COVID-19 in Afghanistan

Pittsburgh: Steroids Can Save Lives Among Covid-19 Patients, Pitt Researchers Say

IUPUI: Scientists Determine the Death Rate for COVID-19 in Indiana’s General Population

IUPUI: Epidemiologist Speaks to Rise of COVID-19 Cases Among U.S. Children

Louisville: Public Health Students Help Keep Campus Safe, Gain Valuable Skills as Contact Tracing Specialists

Louisville: Projecting COVID-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations for Region 4 of the Kentucky Regional Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Coalition from August 18 to October 17, 2020

BU: COVID Has Likely Tripled Depression Rates in the U.S.

Emory: Rollins Takes Action Webinar on Race, Racism, and Health | Friday, September 11

UNC: 26th National Health Equity Research Webcast | Friday, September 11

Pittsburgh: Summer of 2020 – Evolution of Our Understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and Ability to Forecast COVID-19 | Friday, September 11

Columbia: Ethics and Privacy: Terms of Usage | Monday, September 14

Georgia State: Racism in Public Health, Featuring Dr. Chandra Ford | Tuesday, September 15

Harvard: The OneShared: World Interdependence Summit 2020 | Thursday, September 17

UCLA: Dr. Gilbert Gee – “Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities in the United States” | Thursday, September 17

Temple: Social Justice, Public Health, and the 2020 Election | Friday, September 18

Pittsburgh: Conversations about COVID-19 – COVID-19 & Secondary Impacts | Friday, September 18

Harvard: A Crisis Of Pathos In The Global Response To COVID-19 | Friday, September 18

CUNY: Philanthropy in the Time of Covid-19: Opportunities and Challenges | Wednesday, September 23

UAB: Mass Incarceration – Policy in Alabama | Wednesday, September 23

Pittsburgh: Conversations about COVID-19 – COVID-19 on Campus | Friday, September 25

BU: Stopping Suicide: A Population Health Approach to Preventing Suicide (Part 2 of 3) | Thursday, October 8

BU: Stopping Suicide – A Population Health Approach to Preventing Suicide (Part 3 of 3) | Thursday, October 15

UCLA: Dr. Gerald Kominski – Paul Torrens Health Forum – “What’s at Stake for Health in the 2020 Elections” | Wednesday, October 21

UNC: 60 Percent of Americans Have an Underlying Condition That Increases COVID-19 Risk

Georgia State: Dr. Heather Bradley & Everyday Health – Chronic Hepatitis C Takes a Greater Toll on Black Americans

BU: COVID-19 Has Deepened America’s Depression

Georgia State: Dr. Claire Spears & Medscape – “Mindfulness at Work” Program Cuts HCP Stress Levels

Harvard: What Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Development Means For Safety

Harvard: Op-ed – How Toilets Can Spread COVID — And What To Do About It

Michigan: How Effective is the Flu Vaccine?

Michigan: From Sewers To Classroom Surfaces, One U-M Prof & Researcher Looking For Sources Of COVID-19 On Campus

UMass: Reich Lab’s COVID-19 Projections Featured in Boston Globe

Columbia: New York Times Quotes Dr. Sandra Albrecht on Car Travel Risks During Pandemic

Brown: COVID-19 Has Eroded Confidence in the U.S. Health Care System

UAlbany: Trial and Error on Campuses Offer Clues to COVID-19 Prevention

UAlbany: Spearheads Pooled Saliva Testing on Students and Staff

Texas A&M: Family Life | Fighting Social Isolation

Washington: Epidemiology Chair Dr. Stephen Hawes on What the CDC’s COVID-19 Deaths Data Really Means in SELF

Cornell: How Finland Got 20% of Its Population to Download a Contact Tracing App in One Day

Columbia: Washington Post Quotes Jeffrey Shaman on COVID-19 Projections

Brown: Even During Pandemic, Normal Childhood Vaccines are necessary, R.I. doctors say

UCLA: Dr. Jonathan Fielding on NBC – ‘If We Don’t Solve the Climate Issue, We Won’t Have a Habitable Planet’ – UCLA Creates New Climate Solutions Center

Washington: Dr. Marilyn Roberts in HuffPost on the Risk of Using Clothing Rental Services Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Johns Hopkins: Faculty Quoted in Reuters – “Results of Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Produced Antibody Response: The Lancet”

Rutgers: Faculty Explains the Importance of Preventing Firearm Suicide During the Pandemic and Social Unrest

SUNY Downstate: Student Publishes Op-Ed in Newspaper Covering Importance of Age-Friendly Information and Communications Technology Amid COVID-19

Minnesota: Dr. Susan Arnold – Is It Safe to Rent Clothes During the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Saint Louis: Dr. Enbal Shacham Quoted In Article – “Hospitalizations for COVID-19 Hit Record Spike in St. Louis Area”

SUNY: Students Published Op-Ed in Newspapers Covering Isolation Effect on Elderly Amid COVID-19 and Importance of Age-Friendly Information and Communications Technology

Florida: Dr. Natalie Dean Discusses COVID-19 Risks in College Football with USA Today

Rutgers: Faculty Talks to New York Magazine’s Grub Street About Indoor Dining

Rutgers: Faculty Explains That College Students Exhibit PTSD Symptoms after Watching Videos of Police Killings

UNC: Rural Hospitals Are Sinking Under COVID-19 Financial Pressures

Texas A&M: What Are Colleges Doing to Control COVID-19 On and Off Campus?

UCLA: Dr. Dana Hunnes on NBC – “How Much Vitamin B12 Do We Need and What’s the Best Way to Get It?”

South Carolina: Environmental Health Sciences Associate Professor, Dr. Sean Norman, Talks to The Chronicle of Higher Education About Wastewater Testing to Spot Trends in COVID-19 Rates

Kentucky: Taking on Heart Disease, Kentucky’s Top Killer

Florida: Dr. Sonja Rasmussen Talks with USA Today about COVID-19 and Travel

Yale: Receives Diversity Supplement

WashU: 2-1-1 Helplines Overwhelmed During Pandemic

Drexel: The Rules and Risks of COVID-19 For Going to the Movies

Drexel: Family Restaurant Makes a Comeback After They All Had COVID-19

Baylor: Rising Star Faculty Member Earns $626,000 Career Development Award from NIH

University at Buffalo – Ending Health Disparities is Focus of Micro-credential Program

Florida International: Labor Day Weekend – Health Experts Urge Safety to Avoid Increase in COVID-19 Cases

Florida International: Quest Diagnostics COVID-19 Testing Backlog Impacts How Florida Monitors New Coronavirus Trends

Arizona: Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents

Arizona: Total Worldwide Coronavirus Cases Surpasses 25 Million, U.S. Leads with Over 6 Million

Tulane: Risk Ranking of Everyday Activities for COVID-19, with Susan Hassig (Business Insider)

Tulane: Three Steps Organizations Can Take to Address Health Disparities, with Dr. Maureen Lichtveld

Oregon State: Natural Disasters Can Inspire Better Local Climate Change Policies – If They’re Notably Deadly or Weird

Johns Hopkins: Faculty Co-Authors USA Today Op-Ed: Why the “COVID-19 Killed Only 6%” Argument is Wrong

Minnesota: Dr. Ruby Nguyen: Using Science to Find Solutions

BU: A Parent’s Toughest Call – In-Person Schooling or Not?

Pittsburgh: Dr. Angus Says Large Antibody Study Offers Hope for Virus Vaccine Efforts

Saint Louis: Dr. Rhonda BeLue Featured in St. Louis Magazine for “35 St. Louisans Working to Build Equity Across the Region.”

UAB: Study Focuses on Low-carb, High-fat Diet Effect on Older Populations

Harvard: Study Finds Rate of COVID-19 in Massachusetts Jails and Prisons Is Three Times the General Rate in the State

Harvard: Study Sheds Light On COVID-19 Disparities In Massachusetts

Georgia State: Harmonizing Behavioral Outcomes Across Studies, Raters, and Countries – Application to Genetic Analysis of Aggression in the ACTION Consortium

Washington: Changes to Food System Needed to Reduce Consumer Food Waste, New Report Says

South Carolina: Study Examines Research Translation Perceptions and Training Needs Among Environmental Health Scientists

CUNY: Analyzing Skepticism of HIV Self-tests Among Kenyan Truck Drivers

Saint Louis: Dr. Anne K. Sebert Kuhlmann Recently Helped Author on Study “Students’ Menstrual Hygiene Needs and School Attendance in an Urban St. Louis, Missouri, District” in Journal of Adolescent Health

Penn State: Incidence and Association of Reperfusion Therapies With Poststroke Seizures

Florida: Study Identifies a Potential Biomarker for Decreased Brain Processing Speed in Aging

UNC: How Can We Reduce Food Waste in the United States?

Northwestern: High Blood Pressure Risky, Even for Young Adults

Brown: Pandemic’s Emotional Hammer Hits Hard

Florida: Researchers Identify High-Need Areas for Diabetes Outreach in Florida and California

Iowa: High BPA Exposure May Increase All-cause Mortality

Georgia State: Culture Depression and Coping Mechanisms Among African Americans

Iowa: Researchers Receive $2.5M Grant to Study How Societal Development Affects Diarrheal Disease Transmission

AUB: Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Health of Syrian Refugee Working Children Living in Informal Tented Settlements in Lebanon – A Cross-sectional Study.

AUB: Research Paper Claims Award in IJPH Special Issue on “Market-driven Forces and Public Health” “Market-driven Forces and Public Health”

South Carolina: Study Examines Rural-Urban Mortality Disparities Across Causes of Death and Race/Ethnicity

Kentucky: Regulations Appear to be Effective in Reducing Tanning Bed Use by Teens

Texas A&M: Opioid Prescriptions for Knee Surgery Vary Widely From State to State

Drexel: Colonial Neglect and the Right to Health in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria

WashU: How Do Social Needs Cluster Among Low-Income Individuals?

Ohio State: Looking for a COVID-19 Early Warning

George Mason: Independent Physician-Owned Practices Adopt More Quality Improvement Strategies

Vanderbilt: Vaccine Narrows Racial Disparities in Pneumococcal Disease

Arizona: Medical Cannabis for the Reduction of Opioid Dosage in the Treatment of Non-cancer Chronic Pain – A Systematic Review

Arizona: Establishing Voluntary Certification of Community Health Workers in Arizona – A Policy Case Study of Building a Unified Workforce

Georgia Southern: Local Boards of Health as Linkages Between Local Health Departments and Health Care and Other Community Organizations

Columbia: Medicaid Expansion Improved Insurance Stability for Low-Income Pregnant Women

Texas A&M: Can Boiling and Adding Lemon to Tap Water Make it Safer to Drink?

Minnesota: Ensuring Vulnerable College Students Have Enough to Eat, Especially During COVID-19

LSU: Translation of National Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines into Statewide Standards and Practices – A Case Study

BU: Works with Sharecare to Release Community Well-Being Rankings

BU: In Brazil, Homicides Are Decreasing in Big Cities, Increasing in Smaller Towns

Louisville: Drs. Jelani Kerr and Qi Zheng Receive Funding from National Institutes of Health

Louisville: Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky’s Urban Policy and Program Surveillance Project

Brown: Dr. Ashish K. Jha Takes the Helm as Third Dean

UCLA: Dr. Yifang Zhu and Dr. Miriam Marlier Join Consortium to Address Environmental Change and its Health Impacts

Columbia: New Faculty Bring Fresh Perspectives

INSP Mexico: Conducts 98th Graduation Ceremony

AUB: Gangarosa Family Establishes Endowed Chair for Safe Water and Sanitation

AUB: Dr. Abla Mehio Sibai Succeeds Dean Iman Nuwayhid as Interim Dean

Iowa: Healthier Workforce Center Launches Suicide Prevention Campaign

Johns Hopkins: Faculty Launch New Center to Address Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

Columbia: Dean’s 2020-21 Grand Rounds Series “Creating a Public Health System for Equity” Launches September 17 with Dr. Oxiris Barbot, Former NYCDOHMH Commissioner, and Wes Moore, CEO, Robin Hood

Drexel: New Public Health Leadership Learning Pathway Curriculum

George Mason: Dr. Marti Kubik Appointed Professor and the Director of the School of Nursing

Harvard: To Beat the Next Pandemic, Sustain and Grow Incentives for Collaborative Innovation | Dr.Pardis Sabeti

Harvard: Papers Of The Month – Radioactive Air Particles Increase Inflammation In Elderly Men

Washington: Drs. Renee Heffron and Andrew Mujugira Receive Grant to Help Prevent HIV Among People in Uganda Who Inject Drugs

Pittsburgh: Dr. Dara Mendez Receives National Recognition for Maternal and Child Health Research

Columbia: Dr. Salim Abdool Karim Named One of 100 Most Influential Africans

Johns Hopkins: Faculty Named Senior Fellow For Global Health with the Council on Foreign Relations’ David Rockefeller Studies Program

South Carolina: Environmental Health Sciences Assistant Professor, Dr. Guoshuai Cai, Wins Grant from SC INBRE

Kentucky: Dr. Jerod Stapleton on JAMA Podcast, Discussing “Indoor Tanning 5 Years After Youth Access Restrictions”

Drexel: Professor Barber Awarded $2.2 Million R01 Award From NIH

Drexel: The American Statistical Association Honors Dr. Brisa N. Sánchez for Hispanic Heritage Month

GW: Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity Announces Director of National Workforce Movement

Arizona: Greater Phoenix Leadership Expands Senior Staff

Louisville: MSHA Student, Ms. Rachael Parrill, Wins American College of Healthcare Executives Essay Competition

Harvard: 2020 Alumni Awards Announced

Harvard: ISES 2020 Award Winners – IPA/DGUV Award For Young Exposure Scientists

CUNY: 2019 Grad Ms. Sheila Desai Honored with National Abortion Federation Award

UMass: Alumna Ms. Claire Moss Receives Young Leader Award

Saint Louis: Alumni Mr. Kwamane D. Liddell Featured in “Startup of the Month: DispatchCare” in August

Georgia State: Ms. Crystal Lee – From Volleyball Standout to Published Researcher

Drexel: Enhancing Resources for Better Health Among EMS Personnel

BU: Students Named ASPPH ‘This is Public Health’ Ambassadors

BU: New Podcast Makes Public Health “Accessible and Digestible”

Louisville: Fulbright Award is Dream Come True for Doctoral Student

DHHS Federal Agency Funding Opportunities