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Scholarly activities and accolades: Jan–April 2022

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for Jan. 1, 2022 through April 30, 2022 (Note: Future roundups will be released on a monthly basis.) 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. Honors and Awards Lisa Bedore, chair of the Department of Commu...
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Three COVID studies receive 'Catalytic Collaborative' seed funding

Three College of Public Health studies focusing on COVID-19 have been awarded funding under a universitywide program designed to spark innovative interdisciplinary research. The Catalytic Collaborative Funding Initiative, administered by Temple’s Office of the Vice President for Research, provides seed funding to studies that allow researchers from different parts of the university to combine their expertise in investigating cutting-edge areas of technology, energy, biology and health. The internal funding serves as a kick-starter for promising investigations, allowing Temple...
Research
Coronavirus
School of Social Work
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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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...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty

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...
Coronavirus
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty
Di Zhu

Biostatistics student named college's first-ever recipient of APHA student award

Di Zhu has become the first-ever student from the College of Public Health to receive a Student Membership Award from the American Public Health Association’s Applied Public Health Statistics section. Ten students nationwide are selected annually for the honor, which includes membership in the professional society. The award recognizes education and work experience, interest in health statistics, and future in public health practice or research.  Zhu began this spring in the master of public health in applied biostatistics program, where she has developed her analytical ski...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Students
the cover of the college of public health 2021 magazine, depicting a nursing student filling a needle with covid-19 vaccine

Explore the Fall 2021 issue of Temple Public Health

Public health crises, from the COVID-19 pandemic to future challenges, call for an interdisciplinary, unified response, and we look to our future public health, healthcare and social service workers to answer this call. Within this year's Temple Public Health magazine, you will find numerous examples of just that—beginning with the story of our vaccine delivery protocol, RapidVax, and how the college partnered with communities across Philadelphia to help the city reach an all-important vaccination threshold. You'll also read stories of impact beyond the pandemic, including th...
College of Public Health
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Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Patients hospitalized for influenza may have increased risk of heart attack and stroke

Patients hospitalized for influenza had increased odds of heart attack and stroke in the following weeks and months, according to a new study led by Temple College of Public Health epidemiologist and assistant professor Erin Kulick. Kulick and collaborators from Columbia University established the connection after analyzing the large New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) database, which includes about 98 percent of all hospitalizations in the state.  “In looking at trigger factors for stroke and heart attack, there’s been promising research i...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research
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Recovery from job-loss injury is more than physical

When a person leaves a job due to a serious injury, the resulting mental health issues, like depression or post-traumatic stress, can endure longer than the physical ones. New research by Aimee Palumbo, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, finds a connection between returning to work and mental health outcomes in Black men in Philadelphia recovering from serious injuries.  The research, newly published in the journal Injury, finds not returning to work after injury to be strongly associated with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research
Samantha Holtz

Holtz fights for 'the most important resource on the planet'

For Samantha Holtz, it’s all about access to clean water. More than a billion people globally lack access to safe drinking water, and Holtz has been exploring solutions at both the community level and the policymaking side of this vital public health issue.  “I've always been into water, water scarcity, contamination,” Holtz says. “It’s the most important resource on the planet. Too many people don't have access to clean water, or the water they have access to harms them.” She is pursuing her master of public health in environmental health degree at the College of...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Environment
Students
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Health Outbreaks course explores COVID-19 and its implications

Temple’s General Education program is designed to broaden undergraduate students’ exposure to arts, sciences, history and contemporary issues. So it was timely for the College of Public Health to create “Health Outbreaks, Epidemics and Pandemics: The Case of Coronavirus,” a GenEd class about COVID-19 and its implications, for the spring semester. “This class isn't just about COVID-19 itself; it's also about the perfect storm of events that led us to where we are today, and that's what makes this ideal for a GenEd course,” says Krys Johnson, assistant professor of e...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Coronavirus

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