Denise Blough

When it comes to climate change, “we think so much about polar bears and ice caps, and I think we forget that we’re polar bears too, in a sense,” said Stephanie Poling, a student in the college’s Global One Health Graduate Certificate program.

Public health isn’t exactly as easy as ABC, but alumna Victoria Zigmont ’15 PhD is trying to explain it that way through her new children’s book The ABCs of Public Health.

Zigmont began working on the book, self-published earlier this year, when she noticed something missing in the kid’s section at libraries and bookstores.  

Medication-assisted treatment is among the most effective approaches to treat opioid dependency, but not as many Ohio clinicians who could be administering drugs like buprenorphine or naltrexone are doing so, found a recent study in the Ohio Journal of Public Health.

Medications have long been used to help patients struggling with addiction through withdrawal or to prevent overdose. And in 2016, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act gave nurse practitioners and physician assistants greater authority to administer these treatments.

The first step to becoming less biased and more open to and inclusive of people from all backgrounds is to become educated.

The College of Public Health has championed this idea through its Community of Inclusion program for students, faculty and staff, which serves to advance participants’ understanding of diversity, equity and inclusive excellence through readings, trainings and other opportunities to expand knowledge.

Chair and Professor of Biostatistics Kellie Archer and Professor of Biostatistics Bo Lu were recently named 2021 fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Fellows are named each year in recognition of exceptional contributions to statistical science.

Health outcomes are shaped by myriad intertwining factors that begin the moment a person is born. 

As the office associate for the college’s Office of Academic Programs and Student Services, Julia Farkas is often the first person students interact with when they need answers.

Monitoring and slowing the spread of COVID-19 within the Ohio State student community has been a complex and, at times, daunting task — one that the College of Public Health began in spring 2020 with university-wide contact tracing and leadership on data-driven health recommendations.