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Schumacher awarded scholarship to share bariatric expertise at global conference

Leah Schumacher, assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences, took her expertise to Naples, Italy, in August. She was awarded a scholarship to attend and present at the annual World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO), where top researchers and clinicians in bariatric medicine convene to share the latest research in their field.   “It’s important to see the research being done in different countries,” she says. “Healthcare systems are different, populations are different, and to some degree the...
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Explore the fall 2023 issue of 'Temple Public Health'

In our local neighborhoods and around the globe, we face a staggering number of health challenges, and we know that it is only by working together, with cultural humility and across disciplines and communities, that we can address them. Within this year's Temple Public Health magazine, you'll find numerous examples of how our faculty, students, and alumni are doing just that—and how the college's future home at the heart of Temple's Main Campus is poised to foster even greater collaboration with our colleagues, community members, and peers, transforming the way we deliver p...
College of Public Health
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Health Services Administration and Policy
Nursing
School of Social Work
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Sue Dickey reflects on a 43-year legacy in nursing

Sue Dickey knows nursing is in her blood. Her great grandmother became a small-town Pennsylvania nurse in 1900. “I visited there about 20 years ago,” Dickey says. “The lady who lived next door to her former house, who was in her nineties, said to me, ‘did you know your great grandmother delivered me?’” Dickey found her own calling in pediatric nursing, then obstetrical neonatal practice, and came to Temple to teach in 1981. Now, she is set to retire after 43 years delivering Temple nurses into the world, so to speak. All told, it’s been around 90 semesters. “I...
Nursing
Faculty
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Collaborative on Community Inclusion receives $10.55 million in new funding

Investigators with the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion have received more than $10 million in new federal funding, confirming the Collaborative as a major national center for research and interventions to support participation of people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) in activities in their communities to improve their health.   The new funding includes $4.375 million to continue for five more years as a research and training center focusing on independent living and community participation of individuals with SMI. This marks the fifth such five-yea...
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Collaborative on Community Inclusion
Research
Change the World
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Scholarly activities and accolades: October 2023

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for the month of October 2023. 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 Chris Sarachilli, assistant director of communications and marketing, at chris.sarachilli@temple.edu.  Presentations and Speaking Engagements Christopher Wheldon presented his research, "Feasibility of anal dilator rehabilit...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Nursing
Faculty
Activities and Accolades
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A guide to CPH at the 2023 APHA Annual Meeting

Faculty and students in the College of Public Health will take part in more than 30 presentations at this year’s APHA Annual Meeting, Nov. 12-15. Presentations come from across the college’s numerous research labs. A full list of sessions from the College of Public Health and Temple University is listed below. The 2023 annual meeting, held this year in Atlanta, is focused on the theme, "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Overcoming Social and Ethical Challenges." For those unable to attend, a digital version of the annual meeting will take place on Nov. 9-15 that includes...

Decision-support application for cancer patients gets further funding

Sarah Bauerle Bass will use a new collaborative grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to expand a software tool she developed with Michael Hall, an oncologist and clinical cancer geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, to help cancer patients make informed decisions about their care. Bass and Hall created Gene Pilot, a user-friendly online application that explains the potentially useful procedure of tumor genetic profiling (TGP) and helps patients articulate their questions and concerns about it. The use of multi-gene TGP to examine a patient’s tumor for targetable m...
Research
Cancer
Sarah Bass standing with a group of comedians on a stage at a recent science-themed improv show

With comedy-and-science game show, public health takes the improv stage

As director of the College of Public Health’s Risk Communication Lab, Sarah Bauerle Bass explores novel ways to deliver messages that promote public health efforts to diverse audiences. But could she convey a meaningful public health message via improv comedy?  The professor of social and behavioral sciences found out in September, when she was invited to perform with the ComedySportz Philadelphia troupe as a special guest “secret scientist,” for a science-themed Friday night show titled “Is That Right?”  “It brought back memories of my high school theater geek...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Social work, rehabilitation sciences and engineering researchers converge to aid older adults

On a recent Tuesday, in between Medicare counseling and a low-impact Zumba Gold class, 20 older adults checked in at the Bristol Township Senior Center in nearby Bucks County to begin participating in a novel study aimed at helping seniors avoid harmful falls. Students and researchers from the College of Public Health's School of Social Work and Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences are collaborating with a team from Temple’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to deliver the program, which combines 12 weeks of physical activity programming with electr...
School of Social Work
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Research
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