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A negative test before or after travel doesn’t necessarily mean you are COVID-free

Many people who may still be weighing travel or holiday celebrations with extended family may be considering testing for COVID in order to gather safely. However, testing negative for the virus does not make gathering safe and should not be used as the basis for shortening quarantine periods. In recent weeks and months, many institutions and states, including Pennsylvania, had required that out-of-state travellers must take a COVID-19 test and/or quarantine for 14 days after travel. Then, last week, the CDC changed its guidance to a 10-day quarantine, or 7-day quarantine with a...
Opinion
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Coronavirus
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Two alumni show how public health can help pharmaceuticals

Matt Phillips spends a lot of time researching infectious diseases and the impact that vaccines can have on patient outcomes. “Who is getting sick? How long are they out of work when they get sick? How much does it cost to care for them?,” asks Phillips, who earned his undergraduate and masters degrees in public health at Temple. He sets up studies to investigate. “It’s finding the value of a vaccine that we could introduce into society to help these patients.”   ...
Alumni
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Social Work

Explore the Fall 2020 issue of Temple Public Health

In this year’s Temple Public Health magazine, you’ll read about how the college turned a challenging year into opportunities for great change: how we adapted our classrooms and research efforts, how we shared our expertise to inform the public, and how our students and faculty supported relief efforts on the front lines. You’ll also learn about the many ways the college’s research thrived despite these challenges, as we collaborated across our 20 disciplines to connect individual well-being with societal change.  Explore the magazine below:...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Health Services Administration and Policy
Kinesiology
Nursing
Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Social Work
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A guide to CPH at the APHA annual meeting

Faculty and students in the College of Public Health will deliver more than 50 presentations at this year’s APHA Annual Meeting, October 24-28. Presentations come from across the college’s numerous research labs, as well as from the Center for Obesity Research and Education, the Collaborative on Community Inclusion, and the Center for Public Health Law Research. A full list of sessions from the College of Public Health and Temple University is listed below.  The 2020 annual meeting, held entirely online, includes a mix of live virtual sessions and on-demand recordings focu...
Research
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Social Work
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Health Services Administration and Policy
Kinesiology
Nursing
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Visits to public locations correlate with rate of COVID diagnoses

Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have been built around minimizing gatherings of people in public places. A new study from Temple University puts real-life data from the early months of the pandemic behind the wisdom of that strategy. The study also suggests a reason why, early in the outbreak, Americans in urban and rural environments may have had different perceptions of the threat that the virus presented.  In an article published in Preventing Chronic Disease, co-authors Abby Rudolph, an infectious disease and social epidemiologist in the College of Public Health,...
Coronavirus
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Social networks impact odds of stopping injection drug use, study finds

People with a history of injection drug use were found to have better odds of stopping injection when their social networks included more people who don’t inject, according to new research from Abby Rudolph, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics.  The findings, published in the journal Addiction, are part of ongoing research that Rudolph and colleagues have been conducting to examine the social context of opioid use in rural Eastern Kentucky, a region hit hard by the opioid crisis and Hepatitis C.  In her work, Rudolph uses social network analyses to unders...
Substance Use
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research
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What can professional sports teach us about COVID containment?

Krys Johnson, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Temple’s College of Public Health, has become a voice on the COVID pandemic. She also is a diehard sports fan—with the NFL season and some school sports around the country about to begin, we spoke with Johnson about the COVID containment strategies that professional sports leagues are taking and how their experiences might be instructive. NBA players are together in a "bubble" in Orlando. Hockey players are semi-isolated in designated hotels and arenas in two Canadian cities. Major League Baseball ha...
Coronavirus
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
illustration of social networks

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...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty
Coronavirus
Temple campus

College welcomes new chairs and senior leadership

The College of Public Health has added new senior leadership to its faculty, welcoming new chairs in the Department of Kinesiology and Department of Health Services Administration and Policy, as well as an associate dean for clinical affairs and interprofessional practice, a position new to the college.  “We are tremendously fortunate to have attracted a stellar group of new colleagues who are joining us this summer and fall," said Laura A. Siminoff, dean of the College of Public Health. Susan VonNessen-Scanlin, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Interprofessional Prac...
Faculty
Nursing
Health Services Administration and Policy
Kinesiology
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Communication Sciences and Disorders
School of Social Work
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics students, faculty recognized at awards ceremony

Students and faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics were recognized for their work over the academic year at the department’s annual Awards and Recognition Event, held at the end of the spring 2020 semester. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event was held virtually.  The following students were recognized for their achievement:  Sulaiman Alquwayfili, Phillip Cerroni, Kaelah Tristani, and Morgan Zalot received the Academic Excellence Award, which recognizes graduating students in the department for academic achievement and is given to stud...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty
Students
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