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Mansell honored for advancing athletic training as public health discipline

Jamie Mansell, associate professor of instruction and program director of graduate athletic training programs in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, has been named a 2022 National Award Winner by the National Athletic Trainers' Association. The Athletic Trainer Service award recognizes Mansell’s work to advance athletic training as a public health discipline at the state and local levels. “My passion projects within the state are really about the education of students, and elevating cultural competence and diversity in athletic training,” says Mansell,...

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Bedore awarded for bilingual language learning research

Lisa Bedore, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been named co-recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Diversity Award from the Council of Academic programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD), an international organization that supports teaching and research in the field. The award recognizes Bedore’s pioneering work in Spanish-English dual-language learning. Bedore and award co-recipient Elizabeth Peña, associate dean of faculty development and diversity in education at the School of Education of the University of California, Irvin...

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Jingwei Wu selected for NIH-funded Biostatistics Faculty Program

Jingwei Wu, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is one of four researchers nationwide to be asked to join the 2022 Mentored Biostatistics Faculty Program in Aging and Mental Health at the Advanced Research Institute (ARI). Through online meetings and a multiday live event in April, Wu will receive training and guidance from senior biostatisticians and ARI fellows who have experience applying their skills to the field of gerontology. ARI is a national program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that provides career mentoring and gra...

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Honors for School of Social Work's McCallion, Hyde

Two faculty leaders in the College of Public Health’s School of Social Work have advanced to prominent roles in influential national organizations. Philip McCallion, director of the School of Social Work, has become a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW). Cheryl Hyde, associate professor, has been elected as the new Chair of the Association of Community Organizing & Social Action (ACOSA). “These things all feed on each other, and more people start to see what we're doing at the School of Social Work,” McCallion says McCallion join...

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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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