mohammed alhajji

Doctoral research on sickle cell in Saudi Arabia earns national recognition

Mohammed Alhajji’s doctoral research has won him two national awards, returned him to his native Saudi Arabia to continue his work, and led him to become, he thinks, “the first PhD student ever to defend their dissertation in a hallway in an empty building.” Alhajji, who graduated in spring 2020 with a PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences, studied pre-med in the United States before switching to public health, and his PhD research combines his biomedical training with interests in policy and behavioral health. It presents an intervention to prevent the spread of sickle c...
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Black adults under 65 twice as likely to die from cardiovascular disease, study finds

Black adults under age 65 have more than twice the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease as white adults under 65, according to a new study led by Gabriel Tajeu, assistant professor of health services administration and policy.  In a study published in the May 2020 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Tajeu and the research team found that socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease risk-factor differences between black and white adults are the overwhelming factors accounting for the disparity. "We know that race is associated with an increased risk of cardi...
Cardiovascular health
Health Services Administration and Policy
Research

'CommonHealth', a new journal from the College of Public Health, publishes first issue

Temple University's College of Public Health has published the inaugural issue of CommonHealth, a new academic journal presenting peer-reviewed articles from both the Temple University community and outside contributors. “CommonHealth has tremendous potential to highlight the research and scholarship of our students and faculty not only to our on-campus community, but also to our alumni as well as the citizens of the region and our public health colleagues around the country and world,” said David B. Sarwer, associate dean for research. The journal is managed by the colleg...
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Students impress, virtually and in record numbers, at Research Day

More than 100 students logged in via video on April 3 to describe their research and scholarly projects for the College of Public Health's annual Research and Evidence Based Practice Day. The event is a showcase of yearlong projects by the college’s undergraduate and graduate students and is designed to give them valuable experience in setting up public health projects and presenting the results to others.   Under normal circumstances, the day is an energetic in-person gathering, with aisles of posters and students describing the work. This year, undergraduate and graduate s...
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Fellowship helps VR research move from diagnosis to intervention

In a cinder block basement room in Pearson Hall, inconspicuously down the corridor from the student swimming pools, Geoffrey Wright and his computer programmers create virtual realities. Wright, associate professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, runs the Motion-Action-Perception (MAP) lab, where his team develops immersive fantasy landscapes to help diagnose real-world balance and motor skills impairments. Now, with a new Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio fellowship from Temple, Wright will spend a year building a new generation of software tools, e...
Technology
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Neuromotor Sciences
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences