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Sarwer, Ferretti named to Mental Health and Wellness Task Force

David Sarwer and Lisa Ferretti from the College of Public Health have been named faculty representatives to the newly established Temple University Task Force on Mental Health and Wellness. The task force brings together faculty, students and administrators from across the university to assess existing mental health and wellness infrastructure and programs, evaluate programs at other universities, and develop recommendations concerning the mental health and wellness needs of the Temple community. The focus is on students, but the panel will consider faculty and staff as well. "...
Faculty
Mental Health
School of Social Work
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Kaitlin Cartoccio

Alumna receives national honor as community health coordinator

Temple public health graduate Kaitlin Cartoccio, CPH '12, has been recognized as one of “40 Under 40 in Public Health,” a national honor highlighting leaders who are improving the health of communities across the country. Cartoccio is making an impact at the local level as community programs coordinator for Bernards Township, New Jersey. She manages programs including health education events at schools, neighborhood health screenings and vaccination clinics, working as a leader in the health department where she interned while studying at Temple.  “I really feel like Tem...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Alumni
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Fisher leads panel issuing national recommendations for children’s healthy eating

Providing young children with repeated opportunities to try healthy foods, structured meal and snack environments, and the freedom to make their own food choices are key to helping them develop lifelong healthy eating habits, according to new national recommendations from a panel co-chaired by Jennifer Orlet Fisher of the College of Public Health, convened by Healthy Eating Research. The new recommendations for children ages 2 to 8 supplement the existing U.S. Dietary Guidelines. “The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent the state-of-the-art understanding of wha...
CORE
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research
Obesity
Nutrition

Researchers partner with local church to identify community mental health needs

College of Public Health researchers will work with Bethel Presbyterian Church in North Philadelphia in a study to identify mental health needs of individuals in the community the church serves, as part of a program that connects the city’s public health institutions with community organizations that have research needs. Bethel Presbyterian Church is a Black congregation that has been a center of service to its surrounding low-income neighborhoods for more than 70 years. The church operates food and clothing distribution programs. It provides hot meals and offers senior servi...
Research
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mental Health
Community
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New study aims to ease genetic testing decisions by potential kidney donors

Genetic testing prior to a medical procedure can enable better-informed decisions that lead to more successful health outcomes. But consenting to a test that may reveal one’s susceptibility to future illness is itself a decision requiring careful consideration. Learning about one’s biological predispositions toward various diseases can have long-term psychological impact. Beyond concerns about physical health, there may be worries about how the genetic revelations of a test could affect one’s insurance, employment or family status. A new study led by Heather Gardiner, as...
Community
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research
psychiatrist holding a medical chart and listening to her patient

In psychiatry, adoption of ‘shared decision making’ is long overdue

Shared decision-making has a growing role in healthcare practice, particularly for chronic conditions. The concept is that treatment and medication decisions that impact a patient’s health and lifestyle can be made collaboratively between clinician and patient, rather than being a one-way doctor’s order that a patient accepts or rejects. The clinician and patient bring complementary expertise in designing treatment plans. The patient has the most detailed knowledge of their own situation, or years of lived experience, and how past interventions have helped or not. The clinic...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research
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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Bass honored for advancing public health communication

Sarah Bauerle Bass, associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been named the 2021 winner of the American Public Health Association’s Everett M. Rogers Award, a national honor for outstanding contribution to public health communication.  Bass directs the College of Public Health’s Risk Communication Laboratory, which has been instrumental in the college’s external communications around COVID-19. She has been a spokesperson in the media and designed research projects and educational messaging aimed at reaching vaccine-hesitant populatio...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Awards
Faculty
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Mobile health apps found to be more effective with 'supportive accountability'

High-tech tools such as mobile phone apps can help people follow through on health recommendations, offering daily reminders and gamelike progress-tracking to help their behavior stay on course between doctor visits. But it’s a mistake to believe that a totally automated solution works for everyone. A new study by Stephen Lepore, chair and professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Bradley Collins, professor of social and behavioral sciences, shows the benefit of a hybrid approach that combines a mobile health app for quitting smoking with targeted hu...
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research
Smoking cessation
vials of covid-19 vaccine

Psychographic factors contribute to vaccine hesitancy, study finds

Given the national goal that 70 percent of the adult population receive at least one COVID-19 vaccine by July 4, understanding who is most likely to be hesitant—and why—is important in developing community vaccine programs, says Sarah Bauerle Bass, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences and director of the College of Public Health's Risk Communication Laboratory. In a poll released May 17 by PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist, 59 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said they have been vaccinated, and 24 percent said they do not plan to. A key to closing the gap is getting...
Coronavirus
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research

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