Six Graduate Center Doctoral Students Awarded Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Globalization, Health and Social Justice

A new Graduate Center Initiative on Globalization, Health and Social Justice sponsored by the doctoral programs in Nursing Science and Public Health has awarded fellowships to doctoral students in Psychology, Sociology, Nursing and Public Health.

New report offers policy solutions for a nation that can’t afford fast food’s abuses

New report from MONICA GAGNON AND NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG, DrPH offers policy solutions for a nation that can’t afford fast food’s abuses recent survey reveals cost of diet-related disease on municipalities

School of Public Health Professors Visit China

Like many other parts of the world, China is experiencing rising rates of obesity and, as a result, of Type 2 diabetes.

Professor Lorna Thorpe Awarded $3.4 Million in Funding from de Beaumont Foundation for Health Examination Survey of NYC

Working collaboratively with our NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Professor Lorna Thorpe has received a $3.4 million dollar grant from the de Beaumont Foundation to carry out a health examination survey of New York City adults and the potential utility of Electronic Health Records (EHR) as a method for surveillance of population health. [...]

New CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College faculty member, Associate Professor, Dr. Grace Sembajwe

Former Harvard School of Public Health Research Epidemiologist and Co-Principal Investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for biomarkers of pain and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Stacey Plichta Is Interviewed about women who are victims of domestic violence

Health care providers are the gateway for women who are victims of domestic violence

Drs. Mimi Fahs, Bill Gallo, and Mieke Schmitz (a Hunter MPH student at the time and now a DPH student) and Nina Parikh (Brookdale Center for Healthy Living & Longevity) publish: The association between neighbourhood social cohesion and hypertension management strategies in older adults

Professors Mimi Fahs and Bill Gallo from the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and Mieke Schmitz (a Hunter MPH student at the time and now a DPH student) and Nina Parikh (Brookdale Center for Healthy Living & Longevity) publish: The association between neighbourhood social cohesion and hypertension management strategies in older adults [...]

Dr. Lorna Thorpe and colleagues publish Increased screening colonoscopy rates and reduced racial disparities in the New York Citywide Campaign: An urban model.

Lorna Thorpe, associate professor at CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and colleagues publish Increased screening colonoscopy rates and reduced racial disparities in the New York Citywide Campaign: An urban model. See abstract below: OBJECTIVES: In 2003, in response to low colonoscopy screening rates and significant sociodemographic disparities in colonoscopy screening in New [...]

Dr. Elizabeth Kelvin and colleagues publish: Off-Label Use of the Female Condom for Anal Intercourse among a Group of Men in New York City

Elizabeth Kelvin and colleagues publish: Off-Label Use of the Female Condom for Anal Intercourse among a Group of Men in New York City in American Journal of Public Health Kelvin EA, Mantell JE, Candelario N, Hoffman S, Exner TM, Stackhouse W, Stein ZA. 2011. Off-Label Use of the Female Condom for Anal Intercourse among a [...]

Professors Barbara Berney, Lynn Roberts and Diana Romero are recipients of the Presidential Fund for Faculty Achievement 2012 awards.