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Associate Dean Ross Silverman discusses vaccine mandate conflicts, 'exemption mills'

Ross Silverman, the College of Public Health’s new associate dean of faculty affairs, began exploring the complexities of vaccine compliance and mandates long before the COVID-19 pandemic. An attorney who earned a dual law degree and master of public health at Boston University, Silverman has spent his career examining public health law and policy with an eye toward making them work better. He arrives at Temple from Indiana University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in history and most recently served as professor of health policy and management in the Richard M. Fai...

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Rudolph answers early questions on new COVID variant

It's too early to know what we can expect from the omicron variant of COVID-19, which was detected in South Africa and Europe in November and announced on Dec. 1 to have arrived in the United States. The World Health Organization says it presents a “very high" risk, based on mutations it shares with other viruses of concern and their impact, and it could lead to new surges worldwide. Abby Rudolph, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Temple's College of Public Health, studies disease transmission patterns and has followed COVID-19 and its variants. We asked...

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As nursing instructor and journal editor, Montgomery blazes path

Tiffany Montgomery, who joined the College of Public Health’s nursing department this year as assistant professor, has been named associate editor of Nursing for Women’s Health, the Association for Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) practice journal. As the first Black editor of any AWHONN scholarly publication, Montgomery plans to approach the job with the same purpose she brings to her research and teaching. “I’ll do my best to ensure that others with diversity of thought and experience come alongside me,” she says. “I may be the first, but I...

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Bass honored for advancing public health communication

Sarah Bauerle Bass, associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been named the 2021 winner of the American Public Health Association’s Everett M. Rogers Award, a national honor for outstanding contribution to public health communication. Bass directs the College of Public Health’s Risk Communication Laboratory, which has been instrumental in the college’s external communications around COVID-19. She has been a spokesperson in the media and designed research projects and educational messaging aimed at reaching vaccine-hesitant populatio...

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College welcomes new faculty for 2021-2022 academic year

The College of Public Health brings together top scholars from around the world—teaching in our classrooms, leading our research, and forging partnerships across the community. The following new faculty join the college starting the 2021-2022 academic year. Jennifer Brown, assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Nursing Leeja Carter, associate professor of instruction in the Department of Kinesiology Tamika Curry, assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy Kathleen Donocoff, clinical assistant profe...

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Fisher named associate editor of 'Frontiers in Public Health'

Jennifer Orlet Fisher, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and associate director of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education, is adding to her portfolio to become an associate editor of the journal Frontiers in Public Health. Fisher, whose work focuses on the development of eating behavior during infancy and early childhood, will oversee peer review for articles in the journal’s new Public Health and Nutrition section and help the publication build a collection of manuscripts that focus on population-level nutrition. “I’m most ex...

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Faculty-edited DNP textbooks recognized as Books of the Year

Mary Terhaar, director and chair of the Department of Nursing, has been a national leader in building curriculum for the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, a relatively new option for advanced graduate study in nursing. Earlier this year, two of Terhaar’s textbooks aimed at enhancing DNP education have been selected as 2020 Books of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing. Translation of Evidence Into Nursing and Healthcare and Clinical Anaytics and Data Management for the DNP, both co-authored by Terhaar, received first-place honors in their categories from the journal....

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Hyde named fellow of Society for Social Work and Research

Cheryl Hyde, associate professor in the School of Social Work, has been named a fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), an honor the society bestows annually to selected researchers nationwide. SSWR fellows are members of the society who have earned distinction by advancing, disseminating and translating research that addresses social work practice and policy and “promotes a diverse, equitable and just society.” Hyde says her scholarship and teaching at the College of Public Health are “a pretty eclectic mix.” She examines social work from a big-pictu...

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Q&A: Ashley Stewart explains how social workers can work against racial injustice and toward social change

For Ashley Stewart, assistant professor of instruction and MSW online program coordinator in the School of Social Work, the profession of social work is in a moment of unprecedented opportunity. She teaches and writes about issues such as race-based traumatic stress and identity-based oppression, and she tells her students that social work is all about social change. The upheavals over equal justice that the nation has been experiencing this year have brought to the forefront conversations about long-standing, racially oppressive social structures and institutions. Social work...

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Q&A: How social network analysis can help us understand COVID-19

Abby Rudolph is an infectious disease epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her research examines how social relationships influence risk behaviors and health service use. In July, she was named the 2020 recipient of the Freeman Award for her work in the field. The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) grants the award “for significant contributions to the scientific study of social structure,” to scholars who are under 40 years old or who have received their PhD within the past 10 years. Rudolph’s examinations of social...

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