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COPH Notable Mentions

by COPH Staff | September 29, 2017

COPH Notable Mentions – In the Summer 2017 semester, the following students fulfilled the requirements for Certificate in Emergency Preparedness, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Philosophy. Congratulations to all these graduating students, and best wishes to them in their chosen Public Health professions! Certificate in Emergency Preparedness Jocelyn Herstein Master of Public Health Graduates & Capstone Project Title Shelby Braun (HPRO) – Current Breastfeeding Practices and Supports in Omaha, Nebraska: A Mixed Methods Study Alexandra Farfalla (EOH) – The Role of Adolescent Development in… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Notable Mentions, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 7/ Is. 06, Sep 2017

2017 Chambers’ Global Fellows

by COPH Staff | April 30, 2017

Chambers’ Global Fellows have summer 2017 travel plans set. Fellows are coordinating IRB applications for their sponsoring and their sending institutions and considering details related to fellowship success. Lists are prepared: field equipment collected, data collection instruments and analysis of data are ready, along with yellow cards, Visa’s, MOU’s and malaria prophylaxes. Four to six-week intensive summer fellowship in global population health care settings brings to each fellow, the promise of professional and personal growth. This experience provides an opportunity to co-create research capacity internationally… Continue Reading

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Bringing Interprofessional Education (IPE) to Life for Public Health Students

by COPH Staff | December 30, 2016

Education Highlight – Shifts in healthcare delivery, toward a patient-centered, collaborative model, depend upon a high-functioning, multidisciplinary health team. In response to these trends, academic institutions have been developing approaches to Interprofessional Education (IPE), so that students are prepared to work effectively in a team environment. In fact, all academic accrediting bodies for major health professions’ education, including public health, now mandate IPE training. UNMC has been at the forefront of IPE, holding biannual IPE days for all students across campus since 2008, and helped… Continue Reading

Posted in Education Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 6 / Is. 09, Dec 2016

Scholarship and Research Award Recipients Recognized

by COPH Staff | May 29, 2015

Student Highlight– UNMC College of Public Health (COPH) students who received scholarships and awards, made possible by generous donors, were recognized at the COPH Awards Ceremony on April 15, 2015. Awards: The Carruth J. Wagner, MD, Scholarships in Public Health recognizes regularly enrolled, degree-seeking COPH students in good academic standing who clearly identify their career goals, their potential for contributions to the field of public health, and their views of public health challenges, and how their leadership in public health may meet those challenges. The… Continue Reading

Posted in Research, Student Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 5. / Is. 03, May/Jun 2015

The Health Center Association of Nebraska – Impacting Public Health by Fulfilling Its Mission

by COPH Staff | September 30, 2014

Public Health Community Advisory – Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serve over 22 million people in more than 9,000 sites across urban, suburban, and rural America. FQHCs are particularly adept at reducing health disparities by breaking down barriers to health care such as lack of providers, lack of culturally appropriate health services, and unaffordability. Since FQHCs serve everyone regardless of their ability to pay, they save the American health care system $24 billion a year by lowering more costly trips to emergency rooms. Nebraska’s Community… Continue Reading

Posted in Community Advisory, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 4. / Is. 06, Sep/Oct 2014

May 21, 2013 – “Hispanic/Latino Paradox in Mortality, Health and Aging in the United States”

by COPH Staff | May 15, 2013

College of Public Health Maurer Center for Public Health May 21, 2013 The Center for Reducing Health Disparities presents: “Hispanic/Latino Paradox in Mortality, Health and Aging in the United States” presented by Kyriakos S. Markides, PhD. Dr. Markides is the editor of the Journal of Aging and Health, as well as “The Encyclopedia of Health and Aging.” He is the director of the division of sociomedical sciences, department of preventive medicine and community health, University of Texas Medical Branch. He is currently the Annie and… Continue Reading

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The College of Public Health Spring Gala

by COPH Staff | May 8, 2013

The College of Public Health Spring Gala was held on April 6, 2013 at the Joslyn Art Museum. The gala was a celebration of National Public Health Week with community friends of the college, faculty and staff.

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