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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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Fellowship supports research into child behavior, early language learning

Before arriving at Temple’s College of Public Health to earn her doctoral degree, Maura O’Fallon worked as a speech-language pathologist in a school for children with behavioral issues. Now, the second-year doctoral student has received federal funding to explore connections between child behavior and language learning. O’Fallon has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, or F31 grant, from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Designed to strengthen research skills in predocto...

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Kruth stresses patience and empathy in his DPT clinical work

Between earning his undergraduate degree from Temple and starting in the college's doctor of physical therapy program, Kevin Kruth took a year off. For him, that year “off” involved working at children’s hospitals and outpatient clinics and getting experience in physical therapy, “just to confirm if this was the right path for me,” he says. Now, Kruth is set to receive his doctoral degree in May, with support from Temple’s Matt Williams Scholarship. He values the scholarship for helping him pursue his studies, but he sees more to it than that. Established in mem...

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Holtz fights for 'the most important resource on the planet'

For Samantha Holtz, it’s all about access to clean water. More than a billion people globally lack access to safe drinking water, and Holtz has been exploring solutions at both the community level and the policymaking side of this vital public health issue. “I've always been into water, water scarcity, contamination,” Holtz says. “It’s the most important resource on the planet. Too many people don't have access to clean water, or the water they have access to harms them.” She is pursuing her master of public health in environmental health degree at the College of...

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