amanda picozzi

Picozzi’s passion for kinesiology research thrives despite COVID-19 setbacks

Graduate student Amanda Picozzi displays an impressive commitment to her research, despite facing years of Covid-related setbacks. In May, she finished collecting data for her master of science in kinesiology thesis, "Effects of Feedback Type on Trap Bar Deadlift Performance in Female ROTC Cadets," a project she began working on in 2020 and has been planning for even longer.   “I’ve known that I wanted to research this since my senior year,” she explains. Her research explores methods of improving the performance of female ROTC cadets on the trap bar deadlift, a requ...
Kinesiology
Students
a blue whistle hangs on a lifeguard chair with a public community pool in the background

College of Public Health to offer credit to students who become public pool lifeguards ​

In a new collaboration with Philadelphia’s Office of Parks and Recreation, Temple University’s College of Public Health will offer three university credit hours to current Temple students who become certified and work as a lifeguard at a city pool this summer. Six public pools are located within a mile of Temple’s main campus, giving students an opportunity to earn valuable work experience in the North Philadelphia community while earning college credit. This new opportunity is offered through the college’s Kinesiology Physical Activity Program (KPAP). “Lifeguards a...
Kinesiology
Community
Physical Activity
a young student carries a tray of food in a school cafeteria

Study will help schools maximize student meal programs

Federal nutrition policies that provide free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch to low-income students can reduce child hunger and food insecurity. The nutrition-rich meals can help counter risks for childhood overweight and obesity. School meals are a truly frontline public health program, and they’re well funded at a national level. But some schoolchildren aren’t accessing food they’re entitled to. Some schools face key barriers to successful implementation, and public schools often don’t have resources to get a big picture view of what’s working and what isn’t....
Nutrition
Kinesiology
Research
Lucy Wachira teaching in a classroom

'African Perspectives' class places physical activity and public health in cultural context

Only a very small portion of Lucy Wachira’s kinesiology class on nutrition trends is about alternative proteins. But the subject of edible insects as a valuable food source, and a delicacy in some communities, perks up the undergrad students one afternoon in her “African Perspectives on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Health” class, especially when she shows them a photo from an African food market of trays filled with pre-cooked edible insects for sale. Some students ask for more details. Some squirm a little. “Let me move on from this picture, because I still want yo...
Global health
Kinesiology
Nutrition
mike mcgurn sits in a fitness studio

Career in strength and conditioning takes McGurn from the rugby pitch to the boxing ring

Before he was a renowned strength and conditioning coach, before he trained Premier League soccer teams in England and the Irish national rugby squad or prepared Irish boxer Bernard Dunne to win a world championship, Mike McGurn, CPH '91, was a quiet teenager who came to Temple as a physical education major. He arrived in 1987 from his home in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, a chance to get away from The Troubles, with a scholarship to run on Temple’s cross-country team. He showed potential to be a world-class distance runner until injuries sidetracked his dream of run...
Kinesiology
Exercise
Alumni
a collage of illustrations of an apple, a cheeseburger, various sports balls, a brown paper bagged lunch, and feed on a scale

Explore the fall 2022 issue of Temple Public Health

In our local neighborhoods and around the globe we face a staggering number of health challenges, and we know that it is only together that we can address them. Within this year's Temple Public Health magazine, you'll find numerous examples of how we're doing just that—collaborating with our colleagues, community members, and peers to ensure that we translate our knowledge and skills into real-world impact in pursuit of building a healthier and more just world. Explore the magazine below. ...
College of Public Health
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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Through faculty fellowship in Israel, McLoughlin shares implementation science expertise

Gabriella McLoughlin, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, brought her expertise to Israel this summer as part of the Jewish National Fund-USA’s Faculty Fellowship Program. The two-week program allowed selected U.S. professors to share expertise with colleagues in Israel and foster collaborative opportunities through meetings at institutions across the country. U.S. faculty members visited Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and other areas, meeting researchers and practitioners at institutions such as Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv...
Kinesiology
Faculty
Global health
a scale

Named among world's leaders, CPH researchers explore obesity causes and treatments

A new ranking establishes Temple University as one of the world’s leading research institutions addressing a truly endemic public health crisis—the ongoing rise of obesity in the United States. Driven by research at the Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) in the College of Public Health, the university ranks third in the world in the number of papers published in one of the field’s premier journals, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, the flagship journal of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.  “Prior to 2015, we had almost no w...
Research
CORE
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Health Services Administration and Policy
Kinesiology
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Collaborations connect Kinesiology students with researchers in Nigeria and South Africa

At a time when student opportunities to study abroad are curtailed by pandemic travel restrictions, the College of Public Health’s Department of Kinesiology has formed partnerships with institutions in Africa to collaborate virtually on public health research projects. “Physical activity and nutrition are important around the world—and different around the world,” says Mark Stoutenberg, chair of the department. “The more we can expose our students to the issues that people face in different populations, the better equipped they’ll be to put it into practice, wherev...
Research
Students
Global health
Kinesiology
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
School of Social Work
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Kinesiology
Nursing
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Health Services Administration and Policy

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