Jennifer Ibrahim

Q&A with Interim Dean Jennifer Ibrahim

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...
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Health Services Administration and Policy
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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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Wu named fellow of AMIA

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...
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Health Services Administration and Policy

How effective are gun restrictions in curbing intimate partner violence?

Lindsay K. Cloud, a College of Public Health doctoral candidate in health policy and health services research, is bringing a technique called legal epidemiology to an analysis of federal and state laws around intimate partner violence and firearms. The goal of her dissertation study is to identify what types of civil restraining-order restrictions on firearm access have made an impact in mitigating firearm-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. “Are the laws on the books working?  If not, why?” Cloud asks. “We’re creating legal data that can be used to a...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Students
Research
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CDC-funded study examines problem-solving court interventions for drug offenders

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...
Health Services Administration and Policy
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How public health informs a career in state politics

Amanda Cappelletti is the only member of the Pennsylvania legislature with a degree in public health. She earned her master’s degree in health policy and management at the College of Public Health in 2017 while concurrently getting a law degree from Temple’s Beasley School of Law in the law and public policy program. In 2020, she was elected to her first term in Pennsylvania’s state senate as a Democrat in the 17th district, which includes much of Montgomery County and parts of Delaware County outside of Philadelphia. Cappelletti serves on committees including Health and...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Alumni
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Training tool found to reduce racial bias among healthcare staff

A new online training tool has been shown to be effective in reducing racial bias among staff workers in primary care medical offices, in a study led by Gabriel Tajeu, assistant professor of Health Services Administration and Policy. “Our research group previously had discovered that front desk staff in the healthcare setting—who weren't physicians or registered nurses—were a fairly significant source of perceived discrimination,” Tajeu says. “That can be a barrier to healthcare. Patients who experience discrimination are less likely to follow treatment plans and les...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Research
Racism
sherief ibrahim

MPH alumnus hopes firearm suicide research will shape state law

Sherief Ibrahim, who graduated with his master of public health this May, has compiled research on firearm suicides that he hopes will persuade legislators who oppose gun regulation that, in some cases, it is justified and life-saving. The focus of his research is Extreme Risk Protection Orders, which allow family members or law enforcement to petition a court to temporarily remove firearms from someone at risk of suicide. Gun suicide attempts are almost always fatal; in states that allow them, ERPOs have been shown to cut suicides by up to 13%.  But firearm control in any fo...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Students
Research
Adrienne Georgia-Haber, Sirisha Yadavalli, Maya Shenoy, and Hoa Vo

Graduate students earn high marks in national case competitions

Two College of Public Health graduate student teams won honors in recent national case competitions, contests that asked university teams from around the country to solve specific healthcare management challenges within a short period of time.  In February, a team of master of public health in health policy and management students won second place in the 3rd annual Big Data Health Science Case Competition, part of the University of South Carolina National Big Data Health Science Conference.   Competing separately in the 9th annual Cleveland Clinic Case Competition, another...
Health Services Administration and Policy
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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...
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CORE
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Health Services Administration and Policy
Kinesiology

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