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College transforms Dean's Office into clinic, vaccinating 900

The reception area at the College of Public Health on Temple’s campus hosted an eager group of visitors in February: hundreds of people arriving for their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The improvised vaccine clinic allowed space for three socially distanced inoculation stations, where Temple student nurses, in masks and face shields, efficiently administered the shots to fellow students with clinical placements, educators, and frontline staff such as Temple police officers. Around 900 people received their second shot over the course of three days, after getting t...

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Social work student looks to turn service experience into policy solutions

Cristian Hinkley, a junior studying social work at Temple’s College of Public Health, had been working 40- to 50-hour weeks to put himself through community college in Texas when he decided he wanted to do something more “substantial.” He spent several years working across the country with the service organization AmeriCorps NCCC, eventually landing in Philadelphia. Now, with support from Temple’s Opportunity Scholarship Fund, established in 2005 though the generosity of Barbara B. Ernico, SSW '71 and Jeffrey A. Ernico, LAW ’70, Hinkley is putting his experience...

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Crowdfunded scholarship supports diversity in public health, healthcare

Four College of Public Health students were chosen to receive scholarships through a Temple Student Government fundraising effort aimed at supporting minority students pursuing healthcare careers. McKensie Morrissey, studying in the public health program, and health professions students Zuha Asghar, Peace Maddox and Jasmine Dantzler, received Diversifying the Public Health and Healthcare Workforces Scholarship awards to help defray textbook and other expenses. Temple Student Government in recent years raised scholarship funds to address student food insecurity. Mark Rey, vic...

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Despite COVID challenges, OT students create and deliver adaptive devices

Five-year-old Eli has a rare and severe condition called Cornelia de Lange syndrome that limits him in multiple ways. He is nonverbal and has difficulty communicating. He needs support to stand. His condition created a challenging assignment for the Temple graduate occupational therapy students who chose to custom-build helpful adaptive devices for Eli as their semester-long project in the hands-on Assistive Technology class. “I had in my mind what kind of equipment would most benefit Eli, but I wanted the students to figure it out themselves,” says Colleen Carroll, Eli�...

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Nursing students administer first doses of COVID vaccine

Nursing students from the College of Public Health were among the first Philadelphia healthcare providers to deliver COVID vaccines when inoculations of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine began in the city on Wednesday, December 16. Junior nursing students Madison Nesteruk, Dana Senour and Alondra Torregrossa joined Temple University Hospital registered nurses and CPH faculty members to assist in the vaccination of 250 front-line employees at the hospital. Temple received 1,950 doses of the vaccine in the first week of its availability, part of a batch of around 15,000 arriving in Phi...

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Doctoral research on physical activity in Asian American communities earns APHA recognition

The American Public Health Association has named Temple researcher Aisha Bhimla winner of the Best Student Poster Presentation award (in the Physical Activity section) at October’s APHA Annual Meeting. Bhimla, who earned her PhD in kinesiology at the College of Public Health earlier this year, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Health in Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine. At the APHA conference, held virtually this year, she presented her research about how the physical activity of Asian Americans in urban environments is affected by the way they percei...

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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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