Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for the month of March 2024.

For news on research publications and grants, please see the college's news feed for in-depth stories and reports. If you are a faculty member and would like your activities included, please contact Chris Sarachilli, associate director of communications and marketing, at [click-for-email]. 

Talks and Presentations

Graciela Jaschek was the keynote speaker at the Engineers Without Borders Fundraising Gala at Temple.

Gabriella McLoughlin delivered a presentation at RAND Corporation, "Integrating Health Equity and Implementation Science to Improve Youth Outcomes." The talk featured two studies focused on using implementation science to improve healthy equity for young people. The first project addresses the integration of health equity and implementation science frameworks to enhance implementation measurement and to inform implementation mapping to address inequities in health issues such as food insecurity and obesity. The second project focused on integrating Getting To Outcomes with Project ALERT to improve implementation of and outcomes of substance use prevention programming in middle schools.

Awards and Accolades

Thoin Begum, a post-doc in Robin Taylor Wilson's lab, has been announced as a finalist in the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships. 

Recai Yucel was nominated by external colleagues for American Statistical Fellow.

Other Activities

Recai Yucel served as NIH/AHRQ Standing Review Panel member and as DoD Scientific Review member.