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DNP students accepted into Digital Innovators program

Doctor of nursing practice students Colleen Seeber-Combs and Deepali Mathur have been accepted into the Graduate Nursing Student Academy’s Digital Innovators Program for 2023. Participants in the program, a collaboration between GNSA and Apple, receive training in developing digital tools such as tablet-based apps for the future of nursing education. ...
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Jennifer Fisher

Fisher selected to help shape 2025 USA dietary guidelines

College of Public Health professor Jennifer Orlet Fisher has been selected to serve on the federal advisory committee helping to develop the next set of nutritional guidelines for Americans, to be issued in 2025. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated every five years, shape federal food programs, consumer education and food labeling.   “The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans are the cornerstone of federal nutrition policy,” says Fisher, professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and associate director of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education (COR...
Nutrition
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Scholarship honors the memory of alumna Martha Grace Armonio-Tan, an early advocate of recreational therapy

Martha Grace Armonio came to the United States from the Philippines with her mom, Maria Aida, when she was eight years old.  She recalled how interesting it was to see her first snowfall in Philadelphia. She later was joined by her older sister and brother with her father a few years later. Among her initial visits was to Washington, DC, where she visited friends of the family. They included a boy named Peter, whom she would begin dating 10 years later when they were in college. Grace, as she was known to family and friends, graduated from Philadelphia’s Northeast High Schoo...
Alumni
Recreational Therapy
Philip McCallion

McCallion named to executive committee of leaders in social work research

Philip McCallion, director of the School of Social Work, was named member-at-large of the executive committee for the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research and Education, an organization of deans and directors representing schools of social work across the country. McCallion's research explores evidence-based interventions in health promotion, falls reduction, caregiver support, dementia management and service system redesign. Notably, he is co-founder/co-principal investigator of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Agin...
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Temple commits $1 million to immigrant and vulnerable populations healthcare in North Philadelphia 

Temple University has committed $1 million to a new initiative that will deliver healthcare services to underserved immigrant populations in North Philadelphia. It is envisioned that the three-year program, to be run jointly by Temple's College of Public Health and Temple's School of Pharmacy, will offer an integrated behavioral health model of primary care, including pharmacy services, nutrition counseling, social services and other wellness supports to community residents.   In addition to addressing health disparities in immigrant and vulnerable populations by providing di...
Community
Clinics
Interdisciplinary
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Shared decision making can help IBD patients feel at ease with treatment choices

Inflammatory bowel disease (either Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis) affects an estimated 3 million Americans. Evidence has shown that patients have better health outcomes when they begin intensive treatment early, in particular starting with a combination therapy that uses at least two drugs. But treatment may have serious risks, including life-threatening infections and an association with lymphoma. Fearing adverse effects from these strong medications, patients may be hesitant to begin using them and adhere to treatment guidelines until they believe their disease is se...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research

Toy drives and gift donations to support families this holiday season

The College of Public Health is hoping to bring cheer this holiday season with a series of opportunities to support families in need. The college has sponsored nine families to provide gifts and clothing for children and funding for holiday meals through a program coordinated by the college’s Office of Community Engaged Research and Practice (CERP).  Each department and the college’s dean’s office is sponsoring one family, collecting items that children and their parents have put on wish lists and raising monetary donations to go toward grocery store gift cards to sup...
Community
Jennifer Ibrahim

Q&A with Interim Dean Jennifer Ibrahim

Jennifer Ibrahim, interim dean of the College of Public Health, has made her mark as an instructor, mentor and administrator at the college since arriving in 2005. She has won national teaching awards as well as Temple University’s Great Teacher Award, its highest teaching honor, and from 2013 to 2022 served as associate dean for academic affairs. In addition to teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, she has maintained a funded research agenda in health policy, including work on legal infrastructure, the relationship between public health lawyers and pract...
Faculty
College of Public Health
Health Services Administration and Policy
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Scholarly activities and accolades: November 2022

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 Nov. 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. Presentations and Speaking Engagements David Sarwer presented “Mindfully Complicated Obesity” as part of the TOS/TOPS Joint Sym...
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Research
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Inaugural aphasia awareness fair sheds light on condition affecting millions

Some attendees at Temple's first Aphasia Awareness Fair in October wore t-shirts that said "Aphasia: Get the Word Out." The slogan has a double meaning.   At the daylong conference, people with aphasia, caregivers and clinicians discussed the need for better public understanding of aphasia, which sometimes is misdiagnosed and can be misunderstood in social situations. There are at least 2 million people in the U.S. with aphasia, but 84.5 % of people have never heard of it, according to a national survey. Aphasia, most often caused by a stroke, can impair a person’s ability...
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