Tiffany Montgomery, who joined the College of Public Health’s nursing department this year as assistant professor, has been named associate editor of Nursing for Women’s Health, the Association for Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) practice journal. As the first Black editor of any AWHONN scholarly publication, Montgomery plans to approach the job with the same purpose she brings to her research and teaching. “I’ll do my best to ensure that others with diversity of thought and experience come alongside me,” she says. “I may be the first, but I...

Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) grew out of the understanding that a person’s health is affected by more than just biology. Research has shown that social and structural determinants like housing conditions, employment and immigration status can impact physical and mental health and contribute to health disparities between different populations. A medical-legal partnership is an innovation that adds the expertise of a lawyer to the healthcare team, integrating care for the patient in one place and helping clinicians, case managers and social workers address structural prob...

Jackhammers pounding at 7 a.m. Poorly lit streets at night. Deteriorating sidewalks and dangerous traffic patterns. Neighborhoods inescapably shape the health of people who live in them, and a distressing physical environment can have a magnified effect on people who have experienced trauma. The idea of applying trauma-informed thinking has begun to take hold when it comes to community policing, medical care and other interactions that people have with the infrastructure in place to serve us. How about “trauma-informed neighborhoods”? Krista Schroeder, assistant professor...

Researchers in the College of Public Health have partnered with the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance (PCA) to fund and help lead a project aimed at reducing recurrence of child sexual abuse. PCA is Philadelphia’s only child advocacy center, providing forensic interviews, victim services, trauma-focused therapy and other services for thousands of children with suspected abuse or neglect that has been reported to the police or the Department of Human Services.  CPH faculty members Julia Kobulsky, Carolina Villamil Grest, and Bernie Newman will work with PCA to pull importan...