Temple OT Empowers: Alumna Kristie Koenig

Kristie Koenig knows Temple OT from both sides of the student-faculty experience. Kristie Patten Koenig is associate professor and chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at New York University. Pairing OT and educational psychology, she uses a strengths-based paradigm to examine the efficacy of educational interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Koenig is the principal investigator of NYU's ASD Nest Program, an inclusive program for students with autism in the New York City Department of Education. She completed an advanced master’...

Crossing Barriers to Speech

A service project in Guatemala designed by graduate students in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders highlights the critical need for bilingual speech-language therapy in non-English, high-poverty communities here and abroad. Start the story by clicking below. https://spark.adobe.com/page/Map2sROLuW2XW/...

Learning from a Healthcare System Where Prevention Gets Priority

Laura A. Siminoff, Dean of the College of Public Health and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Public Health, says there are lessons to be learned from a healthcare system that's designed with prevention in mind. Often it is the unexpected that teaches us the most. On a recent trip to Japan, I came down sick, and without a regular physician to see, I went to the central hospital in Hiroshima. My unforeseen visit offered a striking vision of what the United States’ healthcare system could be. When I walked into the hospital’s waiting area I was startled: there was hardly anybody...

"I Live and Breathe Public Health:" MPH Alumna Tinesha Banks

Since graduating from Temple’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program in 2003, Tinesha Banks has held leadership positions in a range of healthcare services organizations, including 10 years as deputy executive director at the Health Promotion Council. Now Banks is vice president of health access and service delivery at AccessMatters, a Philadelphia-based organization that works to equalize access to sexual and reproductive health care for teens and adults in need. What do you do at AccessMatters? We provide everything from outreach and education to testing, engagement, and...

A Warm Welcome to New Faculty at the College

The College of Public Health is welcoming top scholars from around the world--new faculty members teaching in our classrooms, leading our research, and forging partnerships across the community. Since July 2016, we’ve been honored to add 20 talented faculty members to the college: Katherine Bevans, Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Sciences Susan Caspari, Instructor, Communication Sciences and Disorders Marissa Cloutier, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Social and Behavioral Sciences Donna Coffman, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Deirdre Dingman,...

Assistant Professor Kim Gargin Helps Students Take Flight Through Fieldwork

Assistant Professor Kim Gargin joined Temple's Occupational Therapy faculty in 2014 with more than 13 years of clinical practice and research in professional development. We talked with her about being on the team designing Temple OT’s new curriculum and what’s unique about Temple’s fieldwork experience.  It’s your third year on the Temple OT faculty. What brought you here? I went to the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia for my undergrad and graduate work, and I was an adjunct there for a long time. It was comfortable. Roger Ideishi [director of Temple's OT p...

For Amy Boyana, Data Science Is a Passport to Success

Health Informatics student to represent Temple at annual conference For Amulya Boyana (she goes by Amy), it’s been a whirlwind year. When she came from her home in India to Philadelphia for the College of Public Health’s master of science in health informatics program, it was the first time she’d stepped onto a plane. Then, not long into her first semester, the graduate student applied to work at the Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She got the job. “I’m just so excited – it’s my first time in...

Explore our 2016 Year In Review

Welcome to the College of Public Health’s 2016 Year In Review—stories about the faculty, students and alumni who are powering the future of public health. We invite you to read about the work being done in the 17 disciplines across the college. Together, we are transforming lives, communities and the world. Here’s what you’ll find in our 2016 Year In Review: Researchers developing new ways to track microbial contamination of groundwater, prevent HIV transmission, detect hidden brain injury, and treat communication disorders. Faculty studying the social impacts of canc...

Social Work Students March on Washington

On January 20, half a million people gathered at the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington, and members of Temple’s Social Work Student Collective were there to make their collective voice heard. “It was great to be able to go to the march with friends, classmates, and community,” says Lydia Smith, SWSC’s president. “It was very exciting that so many people joined.” Smith says the group’s presence was important. “As future social workers we regularly encounter members of oppressed and marginalized groups, who may be disproportionately affecte...

Kinesiology Major Katie Pinson on the Rewards of Student Research

Katie Pinson, an exercise and sport science kinesiology major in her junior year at Temple, won the undergraduate student investigator award at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in November. We talked with her about her research, and the excitement of trying something you never thought you’d do.  You’ve been working in the Department of Kinesiology’s Integrative Muscle Physiology Lab (directed by Assistant Professor Matt Hudson) since last summer. What research did you present at the ACSM conference?...

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