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The Department of Public Health Sciences Graduate Programs Open House is Friday, October 24 from 2:00-4:00 PM in the College of Health and Human Services building Third Floor Atrium. This is an opportunity to check out the department’s Accredited Graduate Degree programs: Master of Health Administration, Master of Sciene in Public Health, and PhD in […]

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Dr. Thomas Janssens (pictured) – a postdoctoral fellow in the Research Group on Health Pyschology at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium – is completing a five-week stay in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Janssens’ visit is supported through a Short-Term Research Training Fellowship from the European Respiratory Society; Dr. Harver serves as host supervisor. […]

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Depression may not be associated with adverse birth outcomes among a predominantly healthy population of non-Hispanic White, well educated women.​ These findings from the thesis of Kenesha Smith, a 2014 graduate of the MSPH program and current student in the PhD in Public Health Sciences program, were recently presented at the annual American College of […]

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Gary Silverman presented Connecting the Disconnect between Risk Perception and Risk Assessment at the annual conference of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, June 11-14, 2014, in New York City. The conference theme, Welcome to the Anthropocene: From Global Challenge to Planetary Stewardship, explored how current human intervention is of such enormous magnitude to […]