Denise Blough

The College of Public Health hosted two virtual student case competitions last week during National Public Health Week: The CPH Student Case Competition and the First-Year Health Care Case Competition.

Ohio State teams placed 1st and 2nd in the respective events.

CPH Student Case Competition

Six teams of graduate and undergraduate students from Ohio State and Case Western Reserve universities competed in the college’s third annual case competition on April 7.

Inspired by the university’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice, the College of Public Health recently awarded $100,000 to research projects addressing racism and resulting inequities.

First-year graduate students in health administration programs across the country will compete virtually April 8-9 at Ohio State’s First-Year Health Care Case Competition, now in its 10th year.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are about twice as likely to report suicidal thoughts than their heterosexual peers, and more than three times as likely to have attempted suicide.

The pandemic didn’t stop the Public Health Student Leadership Council (PHSLC) from holding its annual coat drive to benefit children and others affected by the opioid epidemic in Appalachian Ohio.

After their modern development in the late 1700s, vaccines revolutionized disease prevention and helped lay the foundation of public health as we know it. 

Preventing millions of deaths per year globally, the benefits of immunization to society have been one of the greatest health care advances in history, said Amy Fairchild, dean of the College of Public Health.

For decades, tobacco companies and researchers have used specialized smoking machines to test the physical and chemical properties of cigarette smoke — an important step in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory process. The machines work by essentially “puffing” a cigarette and capturing the smoke onto a filter, which can be analyzed to determine levels of various toxins in the smoke.

When Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Health Behavior and Health Promotion Liz Klein first started making COVID-19-inspired holiday ornaments with her sons over the summer, she didn’t envision it turning into a national business operation.