Five College of Public Health undergraduate students have been named recipients of the university’s 2023 Diamond Award. The Diamond Award is the highest recognition by Student Affairs given to a Temple University undergraduate student, based on a holistic evaluation of their accomplishments. The award is “reserved for those who have demonstrated superior leadership, academic achievement, service to the University, and impact on a community (local, regional, or global). Through their leadership, it is clear that they are set apart from others as especially deserving of this u...

Jennifer Ibrahim, interim dean of the College of Public Health, has made her mark as an instructor, mentor and administrator at the college since arriving in 2005. She has won national teaching awards as well as Temple University’s Great Teacher Award, its highest teaching honor, and from 2013 to 2022 served as associate dean for academic affairs. In addition to teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, she has maintained a funded research agenda in health policy, including work on legal infrastructure, the relationship between public health lawyers and pract...

Huanmei Wu, chair of the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy and assistant dean for global engagement, has been awarded the designation of fellow of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. Despite the name, AMIA is an international organization. Its fellows program recognizes leadership in medical informatics, outstanding work in research, and engagement in professional services, as well as high impact in terms of student mentorship. “It’s an honor to be selected as an AMIA fellow,” Wu says. “At CPH, our multidisciplinary approach allows...

Some criminal offenders with drug and other charges may have an option that allows them to participate in a problem-solving court program—a pretrial diversionary program that treats the underlying problems that contribute to criminal behavior and improves outcomes for victims, litigants and communities. Although the mission of problem-solving courts is fairly uniform, the strategies they use to keep drug misusers alive and healthy vary tremendously. Elizabeth Van Nostrand, a legal epidemiologist and associate professor in the College of Public Health’s Department of Healt...