Thursday October 19, 2023By SU Public Relations
SALISBURY, MD—Salisbury University senior Kaci Mills was named a 2023 Helen P. Cleary Scholarship recipient by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing.
“Kaci is a stellar public health student who upholds the high standards set in the discipline,” said Dr. Brandye Nobiling, professor and SU Public Health Program director. “She is a passionate emerging leader in public health and has a bright future ahead.”
The scholarship is designed to assist students with the fees associated with preparing and testing for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) examination. Mills, a public health… Read More
By Folasade Akpan
Health science students of Government Secondary School (GSS), Apo resettlement and Health Bridge Initiative, an NGO, on Thursday took to the streets to sensitize Abuja residents to the importance of health education.
The students, displaying different placards about various diseases, embarked on a sensitization walk from Apo to the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in Abuja.
During the sensitization, they talked about the effects of those diseases, how they were contracted and the best methods of avoiding them.
They also told the residents about the ones that were vaccine preventable and those that could… Read More
Statement from Dr. Timothy H. Dellit, Interim CEO, UW Medicine, Interim Dean of the UW School of Medicine, and Interim Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Washington:
The University of Washington School of Medicine will no longer contribute data to US News & World Report for its medical school rankings beginning in 2024. While we have submitted our data for this year, we believe it is important to join other medical schools including Harvard Medical School, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford Medical School,… Read More
CHIPPEWA FALLS (WQOW) – Mental health issues can impact many people, and may lead to dangerous situations. Because of this — the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District is working to reduce the risk of encountering one.
The district attended a two-day training starting on Thursday in Chippewa Falls about handling a crisis and suicide prevention training.
District Mental Health Jamie Ganske said the main takeaway from the training is to prepare staff, students, and parents moving forward.
“The best way I’ve been able to describe it is that it is comforting to know that through this two-day training I… Read More
West finds future in public health through mentorshipPublished Oct 24, 2023 byTyler West (Photo by Kristen Martin)An email started East Carolina University public health major Tyler West’s journey to completing his signature honors project.
Through emails from the health education and promotion department and the Honors College, West learned of a data collection job with Dr. Joseph Lee, the associate dean for research in the College of Health and Human Performance. After a year, West wanted to expand his role further and step into the research side by interviewing data collectors under age 21 around New Jersey,… Read More
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Washington Local Schools is refusing to teach students a state standard that says, “conceiving children out of wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society.”
“This particular statement actually wanted us to teach that those being in a certain family structure would be a detriment to society. Absolutely not,” Superintendent Kadee Anstadt said. “I will never ever tell a student that where they come from determines their outcome. Not ever.”
The law went into effect in September 2021.
Health Teacher and Department Chair at Whitmer High School Tina Dake… Read More
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It’s all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class… Read More
I lost a friend at university; one of my closest friends. I remember going through a really hard time when I lost him. It was then that my CGPA dropped. Even then, I was privileged, because there were so many students around me going through much worse: the loss of a parent, the financial fight to make ends meet far away from home, a downward spiraling CGPA, and a general feeling of despair with despair nobody to turn to for support. All around us, life went on, through politics (external and internal), the rat race for good grades, and beyond.… Read More
