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Pfeiffer, Wilbanks named to 2023 Gallery of Success

The Temple University Gallery of Success, which honors esteemed alumni, has named College of Public Health and School of Social Work graduates Alyse D. Wilbanks and Beth A. Pfeiffer to its 2023 list of honorees. Now in its 25th year, the Gallery of Success celebrates outstanding professional achievement by graduates of Temple’s 17 schools and colleges.  Alyse D. Wilbanks, who earned her BSW from the School of Social Work in 2008, is a child advocate at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, which represents dependent youth in Philadelphia Family Court. Wilbanks had begun...
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Ferretti named recipient of Faculty Senate Service Award

Lisa Ferretti, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, has been named a recipient of Temple University’s Faculty Senate Service Award. In her time at Temple, Ferretti has engaged in meritorious service to the School of Social Work, the College of Public Health, the university, and the community. She has served on committees including the Faculty, Staff and Student Recognition & Management Committee, Student Awards Committee, Student Scholarships Committee, Faculty Research and Study Leave Committee, and the SSW PIRC Search Committee, among others. Ferretti joi...
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Bass receives outstanding faculty service award

Sarah Bauerle Bass, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, has been named a recipient of Temple University's Faculty Senate Outstanding Faculty Service Award. Her 22 years of service to Temple has included mentoring of students at the undergraduate, master's and PhD levels; significant department, college and university service on committees, including chairing the Great Teacher Committee; serving as a national expert on undergraduate public health education for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other national organizations; and serving as an ex...
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Scholarly activities and accolades: January 2023

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for the month of January 2023. For news on research publications and grants, please see the college's news feed for in-depth stories and reports. If you are a faculty member and would like your activities included, please contact Lisa Litzinger-Drayton, director of communications and marketing, at lisalitzinger@temple.edu. Leadership Activities and Fellowships Marina Oktapodas Feiler was invited to join the Philadelphia Regional Center for Child...
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Feiler joins research group targeting childhood environmental health risks

Marina Oktapodas Feiler’s research focuses on environmental hazards that can harm children’s health, particularly pre- and postnatal exposure to lead and chemicals in everyday items and the environment that can disrupt a developing immune system.    “Exposures like these in early life can result in immune dysfunction, increasing children’s risk of asthma and infection,” she says. Many children in Philadelphia, the nation’s poorest large city, routinely face these and other environmental risks, including air pollution, lead, and asbestos in old buildings....
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Jennifer Fisher

Fisher selected to help shape 2025 USA dietary guidelines

College of Public Health professor Jennifer Orlet Fisher has been selected to serve on the federal advisory committee helping to develop the next set of nutritional guidelines for Americans, to be issued in 2025. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated every five years, shape federal food programs, consumer education and food labeling.   “The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans are the cornerstone of federal nutrition policy,” says Fisher, professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and associate director of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education (COR...
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Philip McCallion

McCallion named to executive committee of leaders in social work research

Philip McCallion, director of the School of Social Work, was named member-at-large of the executive committee for the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research and Education, an organization of deans and directors representing schools of social work across the country. McCallion's research explores evidence-based interventions in health promotion, falls reduction, caregiver support, dementia management and service system redesign. Notably, he is co-founder/co-principal investigator of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Agin...
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Jennifer Ibrahim

Q&A with Interim Dean Jennifer Ibrahim

Jennifer Ibrahim, interim dean of the College of Public Health, has made her mark as an instructor, mentor and administrator at the college since arriving in 2005. She has won national teaching awards as well as Temple University’s Great Teacher Award, its highest teaching honor, and from 2013 to 2022 served as associate dean for academic affairs. In addition to teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, she has maintained a funded research agenda in health policy, including work on legal infrastructure, the relationship between public health lawyers and pract...
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Scholarly activities and accolades: November 2022

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for the month of Nov. 2022. For news on research publications and grants, please see the college's news feed for in-depth stories and reports. If you are a faculty member and would like your activities included, please contact Lisa Litzinger-Drayton, director of communications and marketing, at lisalitzinger@temple.edu. Presentations and Speaking Engagements David Sarwer presented “Mindfully Complicated Obesity” as part of the TOS/TOPS Joint Sym...
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Philip McCallion named recipient of ACOSA career achievement award

Philip McCallion, director of the School of Social Work, has been chosen to receive the Association for Community Organization and Social Action’s (ACOSA) 2022 Career Achievement Award. This award honors the lifetime contribution of a person in the field who has made a significant impact in macro-level social work through contributions to empirical knowledge, community practice, and the development of practice methods, especially in partnership with marginalized or underrepresented populations. “If you want to be an agent of social change, you change society for the better,...
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