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Two MPH students named ASPPH 'This is Public Health' ambassadors

Master of Public Health students Keith Hardaway and Krystin Sinclair were named to The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health's (ASPPH) This is Public Health Ambassador program, making them part of a select group of 82 graduate students from across the globe nominated to this year's cohort. This is Public Health ambassadors lead virtual events relating to public health, take over the program’s social media accounts, and contribute to projects and presentations to assist in the growth of interest in public health education and careers. A student in the MPH in e...

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Picozzi’s passion for kinesiology research thrives despite COVID-19 setbacks

Graduate student Amanda Picozzi displays an impressive commitment to her research, despite facing years of Covid-related setbacks. In May, she finished collecting data for her master of science in kinesiology thesis, "Effects of Feedback Type on Trap Bar Deadlift Performance in Female ROTC Cadets," a project she began working on in 2020 and has been planning for even longer. “I’ve known that I wanted to research this since my senior year,” she explains. Her research explores methods of improving the performance of female ROTC cadets on the trap bar deadlift, a requ...

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Padilla awarded for research examining sexual assault against Deaf individuals in the Philippines

For recent College of Public Health graduate Samantha Padilla, CPH '23, what began as her curiosity about American Sign Language (ASL) led to an award-winning research paper about a troubling issue affecting the Deaf community. Padilla’s paper, “Creating Positive Change for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals in the Philippines,” focuses on the prevalence of sexual assault perpetrated on Deaf people in the Philippines. The paper won Temple’s Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in General Education. It was written as part of an assignment—to create a Wikipedi...

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Through high school field placement, recent grad Madeline Homer finds her path

Madeline Homer's fieldwork placement at Preparatory Charter School in South Philadelphia helped her to determine which career path was right for her. The recent School of Social Work graduate, who also chaired School of Social Work’s chapter of the National Social Work Honor Society during her senior year, says she “absolutely fell in love with working with kids” during this experience. The placement tasked her with responsibilities that included weekly counseling sessions with students to improve their social and emotional skills; organizing health fairs; creating care...

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Health professions student puts EMT certification to work

In January 2023, health professions student Peter McCann tested to earn his Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certification. After demonstrating his ability to provide life-saving medical services in both written and skills-based exams, he left with the expectation that he wouldn’t know his score for a few days. Three hours later he learned that he had earned a coveted perfect score. As one of the first graduates of Temple’s EMT training program, McCann credits the course with preparing him for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) Exam. Temple’s...

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Theresa Tellez, public health and epidemiology student, to deliver graduation student address

Theresa Tellez, Class of 2023 student speaker at the College of Public Health graduation ceremony on May 11, came to Temple to learn how to make a difference in less advantaged communities, like the one where she grew up in Pennsylvania. “People where I'm from experience inequities in finances, education, health,” she says. “As a child of an immigrant, the ball was never in my court. In high school, there were times I felt my needs were invisible and that I was invisible. I was drawn to Temple because they saw me when no one else did. They understood the complexities t...

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Five CPH students earn prestigious Diamond Award

Five College of Public Health undergraduate students have been named recipients of the university’s 2023 Diamond Award. The Diamond Award is the highest recognition by Student Affairs given to a Temple University undergraduate student, based on a holistic evaluation of their accomplishments. The award is “reserved for those who have demonstrated superior leadership, academic achievement, service to the University, and impact on a community (local, regional, or global). Through their leadership, it is clear that they are set apart from others as especially deserving of this u...

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Through research and practice, MSW student Lizzie Birmingham addresses impacts of substance use disorder

In the Behavioral Neurophysiology Lab in the College of Liberal Arts, researchers work to understand the effects of cocaine and opiate drug use on the human body, researching topics ranging from the roles of specific scaffolding proteins in drug relapses to examining how adolescent stress alters the brain’s response to cocaine. As the lab’s resident research technician, Lizzie Birmingham, a master of social work student, is responsible for ensuring the lab has everything it needs to function. In addition to organizing the lab’s scheduling, ordering supplies, and managing...

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Doctoral student recognized for research exploring barriers to PrEP

Kirsten Paulus, a second-year PhD student in social and behavioral sciences, has won the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Health Decision Making SIG Student/Trainee Abstract Award. This national award recognizes exceptional abstracts that lend significant contributions to the fields of health decision-making and behavioral science. Paulus’s research examines how women who inject drugs understand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medicine found to reduce the chances of contracting HIV. She won for her abstract titled "The relationship of PrEP beliefs to perceived personal,...

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Gao Ly Vang works for social justice in Philadelphia

Working as an intern in the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Gao Ly Vang, a master of social work student at the College of Public Health, has special insight into her clients’ needs. Vang is an international student, born and raised in Canada, and she’s a child of Hmong refugees from Laos. Whether she is working on policy issues, assisting people without immigration status in communities across the city, or helping Philadelphia welcome migrants who have arrived by bus, Vang is able to combine her education and work skills with understanding that comes...

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