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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
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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
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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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'Fitness orientation' and social support among predictors for long-term bariatric success

For those who have bariatric surgery procedures, increasing physical activity post-surgery is an important component of maintaining weight loss. But patients don’t always engage in enough physical activity to receive the full benefits of the surgery. A study led by Sara Kovacs, assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Kinesiology, examined what factors influence participation in physical activity among people who have had bariatric procedures. The research found the strongest predictors of increased physical activity were an increased “fitness orientation,”...
Kinesiology
CORE
Obesity
Aisha Bhimla

Doctoral research on physical activity in Asian American communities earns APHA recognition

The American Public Health Association has named Temple researcher Aisha Bhimla winner of the Best Student Poster Presentation award (in the Physical Activity section) at October’s APHA Annual Meeting. Bhimla, who earned her PhD in kinesiology at the College of Public Health earlier this year, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Health in Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine. At the APHA conference, held virtually this year, she presented her research about how the physical activity of Asian Americans in urban environments is affected by the way they percei...
Kinesiology
Students
Awards

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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