College of Public Health

Posted 05/18/2009

Electra Paskett, Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research in the College's Division of Epidemiology, is leading a team of researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, who are testing ways to improve colorectal cancer screening participation among patients age 50 and older who are treated within the OSU Primary Care Network.

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Posted 05/18/2009

New public health research suggests that exempting bars from community smoking bans makes no economic difference in terms of preserving bar employment, and that even the most comprehensive clean indoor air policies do not lead to a reduction in hospitality jobs.

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Posted 05/05/2009

Bug bites. Skin rashes. Breathing problems. Kim Carpenter, a school nurse who works on Columbus' West Side, knows that these common childhood ailments can be signs of a much-larger problem in the school's surrounding community.

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Posted 04/20/2009

Kenneth Steinman, clinical assistant professor in the College's Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, is using data from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to help state agencies understand the scope and consequences of domestic violence across Ohio.

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Posted 04/17/2009

Sarah Anderson, assistant professor in the College's Division of Epidemiology, has received significant local and national media attention for her groundbreaking research on childhood obesity.

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Posted 04/06/2009

Researchers and students in the College of Public Health are advancing knowledge about global health. They're visiting places such as Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Sichuan Province in China and the Republic of Uganda in East Africa to learn how these and other remote areas in the world are impacted by public health threats such as limited access to quality health care.

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Posted 02/26/2009

Researchers at the College of Public Health are studying the causes of childhood obesity and ways to prevent it.

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Posted 01/12/2009

Randall E. Harris, professor in the College of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology, was recently elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific organization.

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Posted 01/12/2009

The College of Public Health will enhance its in-house expertise on health services research and health policy with the appointment of Thomas M. Wickizer, PhD, MPH, as its first Stephen F. Loebs Professor in the College's Division of Health Services Management and Policy.

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Posted 12/17/2008

The Center for Health Outcomes, Policy and Evaluation Studies (Center for HOPES) at The Ohio State University College of Public Health is accepting applications for the 2009 Doctoral Studies Research Training Award for study leading to the PhD degree.

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Posted 12/03/2008

The College of Public Health will hold its third Grand Rounds event in coordination with Columbus Public Health on Dec. 12.

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Posted 11/25/2008

Sharon Schweikhart, associate professor in the College of Public Health's Division of Health Services Management and Policy and director of the MHA program, is part of a three-person research team to win a Google Research Award.

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Posted 11/04/2008

College of Public Health Dean Stanley Lemeshow presented the Lowell Reed Lecture at the Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting last week. Approximately 75 people attended the lecture on assessing the scale of continuous covariates in logistic regression modeling.

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