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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Alumni Reconnect in Germany After 50 Years
Here’s what they have been doing since 1965: HANNS SEITZ: In 1964/65 I took the postgraduate MPHTM course at Tulane and I graduated in May together with my friend Roy W. Keiser Jr who was on the public health course. … Continue reading
Posted in Spring/Summer 2015
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SPHTM Alumni are Everywhere, Doing Great Work
WHEN DR. NANCY MOCK, associate professor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, arrived this past summer in Nairobi, Kenya, to work on a project with World Vision International she was pleased and surprised to find she … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Ted Chen retires
GRADUATES WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES who said goodbye during the spring commencement. So did Dr. Ted Chen. Or perhaps it was so long for now. Chen, professor of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, officially retired from Tulane University … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Cuba: Family Doctor Clinics and Polyclinics Form the Backbone of National Public Health System
The anticipated easing of restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba may pave the way for increased public health collaborations between the two countries. Arachu Castro, Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America, has decades of experience working … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Memorandum of Understanding: SPHTM and ENSAP
On November 10th, the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Escuela National Salud Publica (ENSAP, National School of Public Health) of Cuba entered into a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Dean Pierre Buekens for Tulane and … Continue reading
Posted in Spring/Summer 2015
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Tulane University releases report on child labor in West African cocoa production
A NEW TULANE UNIVERSITY STUDY of the West African chocolate industry estimates that 2.12 million child laborers worked in cocoa production in the 2013/2014 cocoa harvest season in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The study, commissioned by the U.S. Department of … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Tulane awarded $3 million to study impact of pollutants in Caribbean countries
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH awarded a $3 million grant to Tulane University and the Academic Hospital Paramaribo in the Caribbean nation of Suriname to establish a center to study how neurotoxins from mining and agricultural development are affecting pregnant … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Collaboration will be Key to Dr. Lu Qi’s New Obesity Research Centerfrom
DR. LU QI has only been at Tulane for a couple of months, but he already has big plans. Qi is the HCA Regents Distinguished Chair for Population Genetics and professor of epidemiology. Trained in both nutritional and genetic epidemiology, … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Study shows Malaria in Africa cut in half since 2000
EFFORTS TO FIGHT MALARIA across the continent of Africa have cut the rate of infections in half since 2000, according to a new study published in the journal Nature and co-authored by researchers at the Tulane University School of Public … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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Interfaith Prayer Room Dispels Stereotypes
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR FARAZ KHALID had a difficult choice to make. He was offered scholarships to pursue doctoral studies at two of the top public health schools in the world, Tulane University in New Orleans and the London School in the … Continue reading
Posted in Fall/Winter 2015
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