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Two public health students earn Diamond Awards

Two College of Public Health undergraduate students, Abigail Hong and Cassie Navalta, have been named recipients of the university’s 2022 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...
Awards
Students
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Patient study explores mental health stigma, trains students for community health data careers

Some healthcare studies produce not just new research—but also new researchers. For a study of healthcare patients that began in 2020, Yaara Zisman-Ilani, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, enlisted the aid of two College of Public Health undergraduate students. Both students have graduated and now work in municipal health research roles, putting their training on that study to work as they begin their careers.  The study examined shared decision making perceptions among patients with depression in minority populations, as well as the a...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research
Students
Mental Health
Jasmine Dantzler

Jasmine Dantzler, health professions and physical therapy student, to deliver graduation student address

“Everything has been preparing me for this moment,” says Jasmine Dantzler in the months before graduation, where she’s preparing to deliver the student address. Next week, she’ll graduate with her bachelor of science and complete her first year of the accelerated doctor of physical therapy program, taking the next step in a journey that began long before her time at Temple.   As a high school athlete, she traveled the East Coast running track meets in one of the sport’s most competitive conferences, competing alongside future olympic medalists. But rather than conti...
Students
Graduation
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
sherief ibrahim

MPH alumnus hopes firearm suicide research will shape state law

Sherief Ibrahim, who graduated with his master of public health this May, has compiled research on firearm suicides that he hopes will persuade legislators who oppose gun regulation that, in some cases, it is justified and life-saving. The focus of his research is Extreme Risk Protection Orders, which allow family members or law enforcement to petition a court to temporarily remove firearms from someone at risk of suicide. Gun suicide attempts are almost always fatal; in states that allow them, ERPOs have been shown to cut suicides by up to 13%.  But firearm control in any fo...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Students
Research
a student practices a basting technique in a skillet

Nutrition MPH preps public health-minded dietitians

Chef Lisa Lombo grabs the whole, uncooked chicken with both hands and shows the students in her Food Preparation and Management class how to divide it into parts. Separating the drumsticks is hands-on work.   “Once you hear that snap, it allows the knife to cut right through it,” advises Lombo, who has been an executive chef at trendy Philadelphia restaurants and now plans menus for large institutions. Her students, each with a bird at their test kitchen workstations, put down their knives and imitate the bone-snapping technique.  This class session focuses on proteins,...
Nutrition
College of Public Health
Students
Adrienne Georgia-Haber, Sirisha Yadavalli, Maya Shenoy, and Hoa Vo

Graduate students earn high marks in national case competitions

Two College of Public Health graduate student teams won honors in recent national case competitions, contests that asked university teams from around the country to solve specific healthcare management challenges within a short period of time.  In February, a team of master of public health in health policy and management students won second place in the 3rd annual Big Data Health Science Case Competition, part of the University of South Carolina National Big Data Health Science Conference.   Competing separately in the 9th annual Cleveland Clinic Case Competition, another...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Students
Awards
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Collaborations connect Kinesiology students with researchers in Nigeria and South Africa

At a time when student opportunities to study abroad are curtailed by pandemic travel restrictions, the College of Public Health’s Department of Kinesiology has formed partnerships with institutions in Africa to collaborate virtually on public health research projects. “Physical activity and nutrition are important around the world—and different around the world,” says Mark Stoutenberg, chair of the department. “The more we can expose our students to the issues that people face in different populations, the better equipped they’ll be to put it into practice, wherev...
Research
Students
Global health
Kinesiology
Di Zhu

Biostatistics student named college's first-ever recipient of APHA student award

Di Zhu has become the first-ever student from the College of Public Health to receive a Student Membership Award from the American Public Health Association’s Applied Public Health Statistics section. Ten students nationwide are selected annually for the honor, which includes membership in the professional society. The award recognizes education and work experience, interest in health statistics, and future in public health practice or research.  Zhu began this spring in the master of public health in applied biostatistics program, where she has developed her analytical ski...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Students
Temple students and administrators, IBC personnel, and government representatives posing for a photo at a press conference

College of Public Health and Independence Blue Cross foundation announce nursing pipeline program

Temple’s College of Public Health and the Independence Blue Cross Foundation today introduced a multiyear grant program to create a direct pathway to nursing from high school to college for students from underrepresented communities. The new IBC Foundation Healthcare Scholars Pipeline Program will provide full four-year scholarships to students from select local high schools pursuing a bachelor of science in nursing degree in the College of Public Health. In addition to the grants, which cover tuition and educational expenses, students will receive mentoring, internship plac...
College of Public Health
Nursing
Students
Sarah Monshi

After studying tobacco control, Monshi returns home to teach health policy in Saudi Arabia

Sarah Monshi is heading home to teach public health policy at Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after earning her doctorate this year at Temple’s College of Public Health.  Umm Al-Qura’s relatively new College of Public Health has a program sending instructors abroad for graduate-level education so that they can later return as faculty members. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, Monshi earned her undergraduate degree in laboratory medicine at Umm Al-Qura, where she later worked as a teaching assistant. She studied at Hofstra University to earn her master’s d...
Students
Health Services Administration and Policy
Global health

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