Erinn Aulfinger

Numbers become people with stories and faces, and statistics are memories and names. For assistant professor of health behavior and health promotion Julianna Nemeth, PhD, MA, her research with domestic violence survivors is more than “just a job.” Engaging with real women suffering from real-world problems brings her research to life.

Students, faculty and staff worked alongside Operation Giving Relief to Area Children for Enrichment (GRACE) to collect and donate approximately 68 outfits for the Juvenile Court’s Family Unification and Recovery Program in Scioto County.

Donations included pants, shirts, socks, underwear and winter coats. 

Public Health Student Leadership Council president and third-year environmental public health student Elli Schwartz launched the clothing drive in 2018 in response to opioid-related research by epidemiology chair William Miller, MD, PhD, MPH.

The College of Public Health hosted the 2nd Annual CPH Student Case Competition on Tuesday. With a focus on improving infant mortality in central Ohio, six teams of graduate and undergraduate students developed plans to increase community outreach and the enrollment of high-risk women into the Moms2B program. 

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center sponsored the event and provided the two winning teams with cash prizes: $1,500 for the first-place team and $750 for the second-place team.

Professor emeritus of biostatistics Melvin “Mel” Moeschberger, PhD, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 9, at his home in Fishers, Indiana, at the age of 78.

After receiving a BS in mathematics and chemistry from Taylor University, an MS in mathematics from Ohio University and a PhD in statistics from North Carolina State University, and following 10 years of teaching at the University of Missouri, Moeschberger accepted a position at The Ohio State University in 1980 where he served as a professor of biostatistics for 27 years.

What made you decide to come to The Ohio State University?

I am originally from Detroit where there's a very striking racial disparity in preterm birth, the adverse birth outcome on which I focus. I found that Columbus’s preterm birth outcome is one of the worse in the country. There were no social epidemiologists here at Ohio State and the potential to create a social epidemiology class was appealing because a lot of students haven't been exposed to the subject discipline of social epidemiology which merges sociology and epidemiology together.

Third-year Bachelor of Science in Public Health student Kaitlyn Jones presented a poster at the 2018 American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting and Expo, the largest annual gathering of public health professionals, on Sunday. Over 12,000 people attended and presented research at the event with the theme "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now.”

The College of Public Health hosted its annual Champions of Public Health Awards Ceremony on Tuesday to recognize seven individuals and organizations that made an impact on the health and well-being of Ohioans.

• The Community Leader Award was presented to Rev. John Edgar, the pastor and executive director of United Methodist Church and Community Development for All People in Columbus, for his work with improving food security, housing, employment and access to basic health care.

Each semester, the Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) Capstone Poster Session highlights the accomplishments of College of Public Health undergraduate students' capstone experiences and celebrates the faculty and staff who have helped the students reach their capstone goals.

Conquering the socio-cultural barriers that hinder students' mental wellness is no small task, especially when you're working toward your undergraduate degree in public health. But that's the mission Meghana Gorur has taken on as president of the Pan-Asian Mental Wellness Association (PMWA), a student organization at Ohio State that aims to break the stigma surrounding mental health through education, advocacy and dialogue.