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Lisa Bedore

Bedore named Fellow of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Lisa Bedore, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been named a Fellow by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She will be recognized at ASHA’s 2019 Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida, in November.  Among the highest honors in the organization, the status of Fellow recognizes achievement in the field of speech-language-hearing and is given to those whose contributions “are significant and would be so regarded within and beyond one’s community or state.” The status is retained for life and bestowed upon...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Awards
Faculty
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TEP intervention is a promising model for engaging high-risk populations

Individuals of transgender experience are disproportionately affected by HIV, but resources for prevention and treatment within the mainstream healthcare system can be limited. Often, it’s grass-roots organizations that fill the healthcare gap for this community. In Philadelphia, the homegrown Trans Equity Project has been delivering peer-based health education and support to transgender individuals since 2003. A new research effort seeks to understand whether this local program, which provides a six-session HIV risk reduction program, could provide a model for other organizat...
School of Social Work
LGBTQ Health
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Maas earns $2.1 million grant to test treatments for pediatric speech disorder

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a pediatric speech disorder that makes it difficult for kids with normal cognitive and language skills to intelligibly speak the words they want to say. It’s a motor disorder, where speech muscles aren’t weak or paralyzed but the brain can’t properly guide their movements to produce clear speech. One-on-one therapy can help, and it’s useful to begin early. Edwin Maas, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders and co-director of the Speech, Language, and Brain Laboratory (known as the SLAB Lab), has been awarded a...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Majority of those under 65 do not take blood pressure medicine as prescribed, study finds

Taking prescribed blood pressure medicine (antihypertensive medication) is a relatively low-commitment way for people with hypertension to reduce health risks that can include cardiovascular damage, stroke and premature death. Yet around half of the people prescribed antihypertensive medication don’t have their high blood pressure controlled within recommended levels. Part of the problem is that they aren’t taking medication as prescribed. With an estimated 100 million U.S. adults having high blood pressure—and the number rising—failure to take recommended medicine crea...
Health Services Administration and Policy
Cardiovascular health
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Based on Task Force recommendations, Temple University now a tobacco-free campus

On July 1, Temple University implemented a new tobacco-free policy based on recommendations from Dean Laura A. Siminoff and the Presidential Smokefree Campus Task Force. In celebration of this change, we’ve reprinted the story, with updates, on the task force’s work from the 2018 edition of our Year in Review. By April 2018, more than 2,100 college campuses across the United States were completely smoke free. Thanks to a campuswide task force commissioned by Temple President Richard M. Englert and led by the College of Public Health, Temple University will be joining the t...
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VIDEO: With CASA, social work alumnus empowers Camden's youth

Licensed social worker Tim Gallagher, a graduate of the master of social work program, founded and co-directs the Camden Adolescents Striving for Achievement (CASA) youth development program at Guadalupe Family Services. In the video, Gallagher discusses his work to empower the youth of North Camden at CASA, where students play games, do homework and interact with their peers in a safe place. Watch the video on YouTube....
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With ACS working group, Sarwer combats bariatric bias

Studies continue to establish the medical benefits of bariatric surgery: Beyond helping persons with clinically severe obesity to lose pounds to look and feel better, bariatric procedures can result in lowered risk of obesity-linked issues including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart problems, and premature death.  But bariatric surgery faces an obstacle that many other medically beneficial procedures don’t. There’s a bias—across society and even within the medical community—against accepting obesity as a chronic disease, as many chalk it up to poor lifestyle choices...
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Review finds common pitfalls in post-hospital care for people with SMI

Successfully easing back into the commotion of everyday life is challenging for people discharged from hospitals. For people with serious mental illness (SMI), like schizophrenia or major depression, the period immediately after discharge can be a high-risk moment for homelessness, unemployment and loneliness. Absence of well-coordinated care after discharge often leads to a return trip to the hospital. “The phenomenon is common in many chronic conditions, but especially for people with SMI,” says Yaara Zisman-Ilani, an investigator at Temple’s Collaborative on Communit...
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At graduation, a unifying message for 1,189 new graduates

On Friday, May 10, eight hundred undergraduate and 389 graduate students in the College of Public Health and the School of Social Work, representing more than 40 degree programs, received their bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at the 53rd College of Public Health Graduation Ceremony in the Liacouras Center. The ceremony followed the university commencement ceremony the previous day, which recognized Temple’s largest graduating class in history. In her opening remarks, College of Public Health Dean Laura A. Siminoff reminded the graduates that, no matter their...
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Five questions with 2019 Graduation Speaker and Montgomery County Commissioner Valerie Arkoosh

On Friday, May 10, Montgomery County Commissioner Valerie Arkoosh will deliver the keynote speech at the College of Public Health graduation ceremony. First appointed to fill a vacancy on the Commission in January 2015, Arkoosh won election to a full four-year term in November 2015 and served as Commission Vice Chair until her election as Chair in 2016. Since then, she has managed human services, the county court and criminal justice system, voter services, roads and other infrastructure in Montgomery County, the third most populous county in Pennsylvania. Arkoosh is a graduate...
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On the news: Complications from a rising premature birth rate

Premature birth, when a mother gives birth before the 37th week of pregnancy, is a leading cause of infant mortality and can have significant, long-term health consequences for the newborn infant. Between the years 2007 and 2014, the rate of premature or “preterm” birth in the United States steadily declined. However, according to recent statistics, the United States’ premature birth rate increased to 9.93 percent of all births in 2017, marking the third year in a row the national premature birth rate has risen. According to research from the Centers for Disease Control...
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Alper receives William Penn Foundation grant to expand early language intervention

Rebecca Alper, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, was awarded a three-year, $500,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation to expand on a caregiver-implemented early language intervention for children in low socioeconomic status (SES) households. Alper will lead the team alongside co-principal investigators Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, professor of psychology and Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Temple’s College of Liberal Arts and Rufan Luo, assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers University–Camden. The intervention, called...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Nursing Department rallies to improve community library in OwlCrowd Campaign XV

A community library created in a partnership between students and faculty in the Department of Nursing and Open Door Ministries in North Philadelphia is one of seven projects in Temple’s 15th OwlCrowd, the university’s crowdfunding program.  The library opened last year, providing books to children at Webster Elementary, a school in the Kensington neighborhood whose students previously went without convenient access to a library. Over a period of about six weeks, Temple students cleaned the space, built and painted shelves and other fixtures, and decorated the walls with q...
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Scholar Bowl team places third for opioid overdose prevention program

On April 6, the College of Public Health Scholar Bowl team competed at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, for the seventh annual Public Health Scholar Bowl, demonstrating their knowledge of public health issues and ranking third in the case study competition for their fully planned intervention focusing on opioid overdose prevention in Philadelphia. Throughout the spring semester, team members Patrick Kelly (who also competed in last year’s competition and returned this year as team captain), Faith Befano, Venise Salcedo, Tirzah Sheppard, Melanie Schupler, and Auror...
Students
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Trends in public health, radio highlight 'Evening with Maiken Scott'

On April 2, the College of Public Health and Temple University community took part in a discussion between Dean Laura A. Siminoff and Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse, a national health and science radio show that explores the human aspects of health and science. In a back-and-forth interview format, Siminoff and Scott discussed strategies for public health researchers and practitioners to connect with reporters and the general public, the differences between health care in the United States and Scott’s native Germany, and public health trends in the Philadelphia re...
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At Dean’s Seminar, McKay urges importance of community and family partnerships

On March 29, Mary McKay, Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, delivered the final Dean’s Seminar of the 2018-2019 academic year. Formed in recognition of the College’s accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health, the series brings internationally renowned scholars and practitioners to campus for discussions on pressing issues facing an ever-expanding field of public health. In her career, McKay directed the McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy and Research at New York University, headed the D...
Events
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CORE–Dentistry collaboration addresses childhood obesity and cavities

A new collaboration between faculty members in the  College of Public Health’s Center for Obesity Research and Education and Temple’s Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry aims to incorporate nutrition and obesity screenings into regular dental care. The collaboration has resulted in the publication of a new guide for dental professionals titled the “Nutrition Counseling and Obesity Prevention Handbook." Obesity and dental decay are prevalent chronic childhood diseases. The same foods and factors that lead to dental decay—sugary foods, sodas, and candy, for insta...
CORE
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From the dean: The case for vaccinations

In the face of an expanding mumps outbreak on Temple's campus—and an increase in outbreaks of measles around the country—Dean Laura Siminoff writes on the importance of proper vaccination and the public health community's role in dispelling myths.  As you are no doubt aware, over the past few weeks Temple University has experienced an outbreak of mumps, an infection that presents like the flu, with painful swelling in glands on the face and along the jawline. For those over the age of 18, mumps is particularly dangerous, especially for those who have a weakened immune...
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AHA-funded study explores how and why exercise leads to positive health outcomes

It’s well known that exercise can improve a person’s health: weight management, mood improvement, and heart disease prevention are common outcomes for regular exercise. But though these effects are documented, scientists don’t exactly know how and why regular exercise can produce these outcomes, especially related to heart disease prevention. In an effort to better understand exercise and heart disease prevention on a molecular level, postdoctoral fellow Junchul Shin is embarking on a research project with two-year, $110,000 funding from the American Heart Association (AH...
Kinesiology

Conversations with Maiken Scott, Research Day highlight Public Health Week events

The College of Public Health has announced its lineup of events in celebration of National Public Health Week, April 1-7, including a lunch and learn series on a number of public health topics, the college’s annual Research Day, and a conversation with Maiken Scott, host and reporter for WHYY’s weekly health and science show, The Pulse. In addition, alumni and the College of Public Health community are invited to Voices of Owls in the Community, a panel discussion that explores the many dimensions of public health presented by distinguished alumni who are dedicated to add...
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