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Category Archives: Fall/Winter 2014
Movin’ on Up! SPHTM Celebrates Rise in Rankings with Current and Future Students – Part 2
All other photos: Attendees included current and future students, alumni, parents, staff, and faculty.
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Medicine, Public Health, and Analytics
Google boasts that it can use online search patterns to predict an influenza outbreak before CDC surveillance picks it up. Researchers at the Health Systems Analytics Research Center (HSARC) push beyond Google and see the potential for large health datasets … Continue reading
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Healthography: How where you live affects your health and well-being
This issue of Global Health coincides with the 142nd Annual Meeting and Expo of the American Public Health Association. This year – the year that APHA triumphantly returns to New Orleans – the theme is Healthography. Following, we take a … Continue reading
SPHTM Responds to Ebola: The Doctor Susan McLellan, MD, MPH
Infectious disease specialist Susan McLellan, clinical associate professor of tropical medicine, watched the Ebola outbreak unfolding and thought, “I can help with this.” She had been to Kenema in the past and knew the people and the area. “I responded … Continue reading
SPHTM Responds to Ebola: The Biologist: Lisa Guerrero, MPH
Lisa Guerrero (EPID MPH ’10) is a biologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Viral Special Pathogens Branch. Her team was working in a biosafety level 4 lab designed to maximize the safety of research into … Continue reading
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SPHTM Responds to Ebola: The Trainer of Trainers: Frederique Jacquerioz, MD, MPH
PPE like McLellan’s is a crucial barrier for anyone who works with Ebola patients, bodies, or with sanitation in Ebola clinics. But in Africa, healthcare workers are forced to use donated supplies, often putting together a mix-and-match. Tropical medicine expert … Continue reading
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Extra: Learn about the Ebola Airport Screener: Wes McDermott
Wes McDermott (EHS MPH ’04) is part of the team the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deployed to Dulles International Airport in Washington DC to screen travelers who arrive from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa. Dulles is one … Continue reading
SPHTM Responds to Ebola: The Hemorrhagic Fevers Expert: Daniel Bausch, MD
Infectious disease specialist and associate professor of tropical medicine Dan Bausch was among the researchers who first noted a new appearance of Ebola in Guinea in March 2014. As a member of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and Tulane’s point … Continue reading
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Faculty & Staff Photo Competition 2014
We received lots of wonderful, high-quality photo entries, showing Tulane’s global public health in action. Unfortunately, we could only pick three top photos and the judging was intense. When the dust cleared, three photos stood out. Click on the images … Continue reading
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Tagged Arachu Castro, Frederique Jacquerioz, global health, Photography, Preston Marx
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Student Photo Competition 2014
We received lots of wonderful, high-quality photo entries, showing Tulane’s global public health in action. Unfortunately, we could only pick three top photos and the judging was intense. When the dust cleared, three photos stood out. Click on the images … Continue reading
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Tagged Competition, Emily Harkins, global health, Michael Nelson, Molly Martin, Photography
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