Public Health Topics

In the College of Public Health, you can find experts on many different aspects of public health from tobacco cessation to health care disparities to brain cancer. Below is a sample listing of topics.

Disasters and the public health response

  • Bioterrorism
  • Disease outbreaks
  • Natural disasters

 

Education and training

  • Public health workforce training
  • Public health students

 

Environment and health

  • Fruits and berries affecting oral cancers
  • Nutrition and breast cancer
  • Environmental toxins
  • Farm injuries in children
  • Over-the-counter pain drugs preventing cancer

 

Culture, ethnicity and public health

  • Religious black youth and healthy choices
  • Chinese-American smokers
  • Amish vs. non-Amish lifestyles
  • Drug-selling among high school students
  • Cancer screening messages to African-Americans
  • African-American girls and perceived body size
  • Women living in Appalachian Ohio get cervical cancer more often than other Ohio women. They die from it at higher rates than other Ohio women as well.
  • Health policy and health reform
  • Access to health care
  • Insurance coverage in underserved populations
  • Medicaid and Medicare
  • Mental health policy

 

Health services and management

  • Leadership in health care
  • Nursing culture
  • Physicians' use of computers
  • Long-term care

 

Healthy behaviors

  • Alcohol and tobacco in pregnancy
  • Lead poisoning prevention programs
  • Anti-tobacco programs for youth
  • Obesity-related topics?

 

Health communication

  • Cancer screening messages to African-Americans
  • Cancer screening messages in popular magazines (many breast cancer screening articles, few on colon and prostate cancers)
  • Communicating risk to the public
  • Health messages via the beauty salon
  • Racial disparities in colon cancer

 

Health statistics

  • Lifting and low-back pain
  • Gender differences in musculoskeletal disorders
  • Data collection and analysis - meaningful ways to use statistics in representing health information
  • Counting flies: how many flies is too many around an egg farm?
  • Which is worse: smoking or obesity?

 

Causes, distribution, and control of cancer

  • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) preventing cancer
  • Postmenopausal women and colorectal cancer
  • High-dose fish oil capsules and cancer
  • Cancer screening
  • Eating red meat and colorectal cancer
  • How to increase mammography screening
  • Allergies and brain cancer
  • Predicting brain cancer from other illnesses