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Epidemiology and Biostatistics students, faculty recognized at awards ceremony

Students and faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics were recognized for their work over the academic year at the department’s annual Awards and Recognition Event, held at the end of the spring 2020 semester. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event was held virtually. The following students were recognized for their achievement: Sulaiman Alquwayfili, Phillip Cerroni, Kaelah Tristani, and Morgan Zalot received the Academic Excellence Award, which recognizes graduating students in the department for academic achievement and is given to stud...

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Athletic training on Broadway, on tour, and on the factory floor

Temple's Doctor of Athletic Training program has been a perfect fit for Angelica Davison McCarthy. She works to help keep performers physically healthy in stage productions and music events, like Katy Perry's 2017 global concert tour. As a certified athletic trainer with a master's degree, she was looking to grow further in the profession. "One of the biggest perks of Temple’s program is that it was 100 percent online," she says. "I was touring and traveling, so to have that flexibility, knowing that I could keep moving, was a huge thing." McCarthy will receive her degree in...

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Class of 2020 honored at online celebration

In a virtual celebration of its Class of 2020, with students distanced to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College of Public Health honored 790 undergraduate and 386 graduate students for their accomplishments in receiving new degrees. "Instead of gathering in the Liacouras Center surrounded by about 7,000 people, we're scattered around the country and the world watching this together," said Dean Laura A. Siminoff in her opening remarks. In the online video event, Siminoff and other speakers congratulated graduates and stressed the dramatically heightened value o...

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Doctoral student brings athletic training skills to COVID response

Athletic programs everywhere are on pause as people stay home, but the skills that athletic trainers bring to public health are proving to be adaptable and vital amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Nichola St. James, a doctoral student in Temple's athletic training program, is among those making the pivot. In a normal spring, St. James might be working at a sporting event, "making sure that everybody is safe and caring for any injured athletes," she says. Instead, she has been on the front lines of the healthcare system, screening patients and essential workers for COVID. "Our role ju...

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Telemundo highlights DNP student's COVID resource video

Cynthia Nieves is a Doctor of Nursing Practice student at Temple's College of Public Health, a mother, and a working nurse at Temple's Episcopal Hospital. She also has found the time to communicate information about COVID-19 by making an educational Spanish-language video for local media. "I kept it all factual information from the CDC, how it spreads, how to prevent it, the importance of social distancing, especially for elders—lots of resources," she said. Parts of the video have run on the local Telemundo TV affiliate. Nieves, former vice president of the Philadelphi...

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MPH student Shenoy encourages others to share #VoiceOverVirus

Temple master of public health student Maya Shenoy's Voice Over Virus project is only a few weeks old, and already it has been called "the Facebook of COVID-19." Voice Over Virus allows people to share COVID experiences. The idea was one of five winning projects selected in the recent Pandemic Response Hackathon, an international event sponsored by health technology company Datavant. In a hackathon blitz that lasted just 48 hours, she linked up with an international team of developers whom she'd never met before, and they rapidly built out the idea, creating a website (voi...

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Amid COVID-19, social work student delivers meals to families in need

The national public health emergency is providing public health students real-life opportunities to make the most of their training and instincts. Working toward her May graduation with a degree in social work, Temple College of Public Health undergraduate Rachel Dettrey felt she needed to do something extra to help out in the COVID-19 crisis. "I knew I wanted to be involved in food distribution and mitigation of the impact of COVID," Dettrey says. "One of the first things I was thinking about was everyone in Philadelphia. There are a lot of issues with accessibility and reso...

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Speech, Language and hearing students bring ASL classes to local high school

Extracurricular clubs are routine for the high-achieving students at George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science, a magnet school in Philadelphia. So it was impressive—but not unusual—to see around 20 students after school on a Monday afternoon learning American Sign Language. The class is a partnership with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Public Health. Three undergraduate students were volunteer instructors: two majoring in speech, language and hearing science, and one in psychology. The ASL instruction, interru...

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Students impress, virtually and in record numbers, at Research Day

More than 100 students logged in via video on April 3 to describe their research and scholarly projects for the College of Public Health's annual Research and Evidence Based Practice Day. The event is a showcase of yearlong projects by the college’s undergraduate and graduate students and is designed to give them valuable experience in setting up public health projects and presenting the results to others. Under normal circumstances, the day is an energetic in-person gathering, with aisles of posters and students describing the work. This year, undergraduate and graduate s...

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On the ground at a COVID-19 testing site

On the afternoon that was supposed to be baseball’s opening day, the parking lot at Citizens Bank Park buzzed with activity. The Phillies weren’t playing – the coronavirus pandemic has led to a cancellation of games in all the major sporting leagues—but the South Philadelphia site has found a new purpose as a drive-through public testing site for COVID-19. Alyson Chambers, a senior public health major at Temple, helped control the flow of vehicles, register volunteers, and keep the mood upbeat. Chambers is working in community outreach for the Bioterrorism and Public...

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