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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: 2013 graduates receive school’s first degrees – Dominion Post
5/20/2013 12:34:43 PM
Friday evening was one of firsts for the School of Public Health.
 
When R. Constance Wiener was hooded for her Ph.D., she became the school’s first official graduate during its first commencement ceremony.
 
“It’s an honor and a privilege,” Wiener said about being the first graduate.
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Charleston Gazette - Monongalia healthiest, McDowell least healthy, according to new health rankings
3/20/2013 9:00:00 AM
Charleston Gazette - The report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin researchers ranks counties by several health factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, premature deaths, and other areas including education, access to health care and unemployment. [Read More...]


Charleston Gazette - Mining counties have higher death rates, study says
3/13/2013 9:00:00 AM
Charleston Gazette -Over the past five years, WVU researcher Michael Hendryx and various co-authors have published peer-reviewed studies examining possible links between mountaintop removal and various illnesses. The work has linked health and coal-mining data to show, among other things, that residents near mining face a greater risk of cancer, birth defects and premature deaths. Environmental groups have not funded Hendryx, but those groups have seized on his findings to argue that mountaintop removal isn't just an issue about mining's effects on salamanders, mayflies or isolated mountain streams. [Read More...]
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The Dominion Post - WVU office earns award for advances
4/28/2013 4:29:15 PM
The WVU Office of Health Services Research (OHSR) is one of two groups in the country to earn an award from the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU).
   
OHSR Assistant Director Adam Baus, M.P.H., M.A., accepted the community agency award at the ACU’s Health Information Technology for the Underserved Conference March 8-9 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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New W.Va. smoking numbers: less than previously thought
2/13/2013 8:19:06 AM
A new set of data assembled by researchers in West Virginia University’s School of Public Health, in collaboration with the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health’s Division of Tobacco Prevention (WVDTP), suggests just under a quarter of West Virginia adults smoke, which is less than previously believed. The assessment revealed a 23.9 percent overall smoking rate statewide.
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WBOY-TV Electronic Cigarettes Gaining Popularity
1/28/2013 8:18:25 AM
"It was rushed to market without any kind of clinical trials or without any kind of toxicity testing that we would normally have for a food or a drug product released in this country," said Catherine Whitworth, a tobacco treatment specialist at WVU Hospitals. "But it was hurried to the market, and so what we know is that, we don't know a whole lot about the safety or the effectiveness."

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Congratulations
5/17/2013 10:36:21 AM
Congratulations to the inaugural graduates of the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center School of Public Health! [Read More...]


Public Health Honorary Inducts New Members
5/3/2013 12:02:46 PM
During the WVU School of Public Health spring banquet on May 3, 11 individuals were inducted into the Gamma Mu Chapter of Delta Omega honorary society. Congratulations to student members Amy Hunter and Kathryn Flack; faculty member Matthew Gurka; alumni members R. Wesley Farr, Somu Chatterjee, Elizabeth Earley, R. Gregory Juckett, Bambi Bevill and Becky Maruca; and honorary members Tom Sims and Bill Reger-Nash. [Read More...]


School of Public Health MPH students Participate in County Drill
4/9/2013 1:33:15 PM
On March 27th, four West Virginia University School of Public Health students participated in a recent point-of-dispensing (POD) drill held by the Monongalia County Health Department. [Read More...]
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WVU Healthcare - WVU researcher takes part in a joint U.S.-Canadian effort to create safer work environments for youth
5/30/2013 4:38:42 PM
Kimberly Rauscher, Sc.D., an assistant professor in the WVU Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, co-edited the report “Health and Safety of Young Workers: Proceedings of a U.S. and Canadian Series of Symposia” with Carol Runyan, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of epidemiology and director of the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education and Research Program at the Colorado School of Public Health, John Lewko, Ph.D., of Laurentian University, and Dawn Castillo, M.P.H., of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). [Read More...]


WV Public Broadcasting - Appalachian traffic fatality rates higher than in rest of country, study says
5/24/2013 10:50:36 AM
Appalachian traffic fatality rates higher than in rest of the country, study says. Dr. Matao Zhu, at the WVU Injury Research Control Center, says road quality is a concern. [Read More...]


The Suicide Epidemic - Newsweek
5/22/2013 12:43:21 PM
This spring, suicide news paraded down America’s front pages and social-media feeds, led by a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which called self-harm “an increasing public health concern.” Although the CDC revealed grabby figures—like the fact that there are more deaths by suicide than by road accident—the effort prompted only a tired spasm of talk about aging baby boomers and life in a recession.
 
We blew past an even bigger milestone revealed in November, when a study lead by Ian Rockett, an epidemiologist at West Virginia University, showed that suicide had become the leading cause of “injury death” in America. As the CDC noted again this spring, suicide outpaces the rate of death on the road—and for that matter anywhere else people accidentally harm themselves.
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Legal Examiner - Texting and Driving Injuries Rise
5/22/2013 12:40:48 PM
As states take measures to keep drivers from texting and talking while driving, a new report from researchers at the West Virginia University School of Public Health concludes that the laws probably aren't having much impact on the number of injuries caused by distracted driving. “Keeping an Eye on Distracted Driving,” appears in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The paper was co-authored by Jeffrey H. Cohen, M.D., interim dean of the WVU School of Public Health, and Motao Zhu, M.D., Ph.D. Both study public health and safety topics through WVU’s Injury Control Research Center.
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ASPH Friday Letter - SOPHAS Site Visits at West Virginia University and Georgia State University
5/17/2013 12:47:45 PM
SOPHAS site visits to introduce the centralized application system to faculty and staff from CEPH-accredited schools and programs continue. [Read More...]
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"Excellence in Academics” awarded to MPH Students
5/8/2013 2:54:04 PM
Congratulations to Alan Keenan and Miheret Yitayew for receiving the 2013 Excellence in Academics award for their work in the MPH Program. [Read More...]


Department of Epidemiology researcher to lead study on relaxation therapies
5/8/2013 9:08:38 AM
Dr. Kim Innes, associate professor of Epidemiology, West Virginia University School of Public Health has been awarded a 3 year grant from the Alzheimers Research and Prevention Foundation to investigate the possible benefits of 2 simple relaxation therapies for improving memory and related outcomes in adults with early memory loss.  [Read More...]


New Epidemiology Faculty Member
5/6/2013 9:47:07 AM
Dr. David Parker is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University. He holds a PhD in epidemiology with a focus on biostatistics and health promotion, education and behavior from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, an MA in sociology and a BS in psychology from Georgia Southern University. [Read More...]


Biostatistics Students Receive Internship Opportunities with Major Corporations
5/6/2013 9:19:40 AM
Yohannes Gebremariam has recently accepted a summer internship at the Emmes Corporation, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) in Rockville, MD, and Mark Riffon has recently been selected as a summer intern in the Pharmacokinetics Drug Metabolism Department at Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. [Read More...]


New Public Health Certificate Program offered in Applied Biostatistics
4/19/2013 12:12:24 PM
On April 12, 2013, the WVU Board of Governors approved the new certificate program in Applied Biostatistics.  The Department of Biostatistics  designed the program for those who lack formal training in biostatistics and would like to gain skills needed to understand and apply standard statistical techniques. 
 
The entire curriculum will be available both online and in-person (live), thus being accessible to individuals from a variety of backgrounds, locations, and experiences. The program will take advantage of existing course technology where courses are taught in a synchronous fashion in which the instructor lectures in-class, and the lecture (along with associated PowerPoint slides or other files, such as SAS programs) is broadcast online. While the lecture is available live during the lecture itself, the video or audio of the lecture is archived and available on the course for access at any time. All course notes, homework, programs, etc. are available online, and the instructor is available in a number of formats (online chat, email, phone) to accommodate distance-learning students.
 
Individuals who would be interested in such a Certificate include clinical and translational researchers at varying levels of their career (faculty, fellows, residents, basic scientists) as well as public health practitioners, in the state of West Virginia or beyond.  Interested individuals in the program should have a desire to be more self-sufficient with their research, specifically being able to know basic study design principles, analyze their data, and interpret their results.
 
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