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CDC-funded study examines problem-solving court interventions for drug offenders

Some criminal offenders with drug and other charges may have an option that allows them to participate in a problem-solving court program—a pretrial diversionary program that treats the underlying problems that contribute to criminal behavior and improves outcomes for victims, litigants, and communities. Although the mission of problem-solving courts is fairly uniform, the strategies they use to keep drug misusers alive and healthy vary tremendously. Elizabeth Van Nostrand, a legal epidemiologist and associate professor in the College of Public Health’s Department of Healt...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Research
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Scholarly Activities and Accolades: June–August 2022

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for the months of June through August 2022. For news on research publications and grants, please see the college's news feed for in-depth stories and reports. If you are a faculty member and would like your activities included, please contact Lisa Litzinger-Drayton, director of communications and marketing, at lisalitzinger@temple.edu. Leadership Activities and Fellowships Robin Taylor Wilson was recently invited to serve as a member of CDC and Agen...
Activities and Accolades
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Occupational therapy
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty
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College welcomes new faculty for 2022-2023 academic year

The College of Public Health brings together top scholars from around the world—teaching in our classrooms, leading our research, and forging partnerships across the community. The following new faculty join the college starting the 2022-2023 academic year. This list will be updated with faculty profiles as the semester progresses.  Susan Brotherton, assistant professor of instruction in the School of Social Work Chaudron Carter Short, chair and professor of the Department of Nursing Revay Corbett, assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Health and Rehabi...
Faculty
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$8.7 million CDC-funded study will explore post COVID-19 conditions using hospitalization and testing data

The College of Public Health has been awarded $8.7 million by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor post COVID-19 conditions (PCCs), the new or persisting health effects that COVID-19 patients experience months or years after infection. Post COVID-19 conditions, also called long COVID, can include difficulty with thinking and concentration (“brain fog”), depression, muscle pain, headache, heart palpitations, and serious complications such as inflammation of the heart muscle, lung function abnormalities, and psychiatric issues. A recent study found one in...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Coronavirus
Research
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Office of Community Engaged Research and Practice partners with Mayor's Commission on African American Males to start free workshop series

The College of Public Health is coordinating a free workshop series focused on health and mental-health issues for Philadelphia residents, in a new partnership between the Office of Community Engaged Research and Practice (CERP) and the city’s Mayor’s Commission on African American Males (MCAAM). The program begins this October with a workshop on mental health, and the series will run at least through spring 2023. “When CERP started, there was a plan to hold public health talks that would bring Temple faculty out into the community,” explains Heather Gardiner, associate...
Community
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New collaboration unites epidemiology and biostatistics faculty from across Philadelphia

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has co-founded a new collaboration bringing together epidemiologists and biostatisticians from multiple universities to partner on research and pursue opportunities to aid the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health. The Philadelphia Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research and Practice Collaborative, formed in the wake of COVID-19, includes epidemiology and biostatistics faculty at the College of Public Health, Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University, and the University of Pennsylvania. “We want to think abo...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research
Community
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CPH offers EMT training through new Emergency Medical Services Institute

The College of Public Health has established an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course that will train students to become proficient in basic life support care and prepare them to sit for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) exams for certification. This six-credit hour course is completed in one semester and is optimal for pre-health students and students majoring in many clinical disciplines, as it provides ample opportunity to gain patient contact hours and unparalleled healthcare experience. The course is offered through the college’s new E...
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Laura A. Siminoff to step down as dean after eight years of service

Laura A. Siminoff, PhD, whose broader vision of public health transformed the college into an interdisciplinary home for health and social services, will step down as dean of the College of Public Health on July 31. She has served in this role since 2014. When she arrived at the university, public health was a Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited program within the former College of Health Professions and Social Work. Her transformative vision was to elevate public health as the broad umbrella under which many health and social service disciplines would thri...
College of Public Health
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Through faculty fellowship in Israel, McLoughlin shares implementation science expertise

Gabriella McLoughlin, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, brought her expertise to Israel this summer as part of the Jewish National Fund-USA’s Faculty Fellowship Program. The two-week program allowed selected U.S. professors to share expertise with colleagues in Israel and foster collaborative opportunities through meetings at institutions across the country. U.S. faculty members visited Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and other areas, meeting researchers and practitioners at institutions such as Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv...
Kinesiology
Faculty
Global health
Chaudron Carter Short

Chaudron Carter Short appointed chair of the Department of Nursing, professor of nursing at CPH, and senior VP and associate chief nursing officer for Temple Health

Chaudron Carter Short has been appointed chair of the Department of Nursing and professor of nursing in the College of Public Health at Temple University, and senior vice president and associate chief nursing officer for Temple Health, effective July 1. “It is very rare that a health system employee also serves as the chair of a university department, and the fact that this appointment has been made is a testament to Dr. Carter Short’s abilities,” said Laura A. Siminoff, dean of the College of Public Health and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Public Health at Temple Univers...
Nursing
Faculty

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