Student Research

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.

Each month, the College of Public Health shines a spotlight on one of its students. For February, meet Molly Mills, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program with a specialization in environmental public health.

Andreas Teferra, a fourth-year doctoral student in epidemiology, was studying nursing and epidemiology in Ethiopia and the Netherlands then came to Ohio State to pursue his research on health disparities among tobacco users.

The 15 minutes it took one Columbus family to get tested for COVID-19 meant the difference between taking their unknowingly infected 7-year-old son to a birthday party, as planned, or going straight back home to set up a telehealth appointment with his pediatrician. 

The public health benefits of Ohio’s stay-at-home order in early 2020 went beyond slowing the spread of disease — the order also led to a 55% decrease in car crashes in the state, found a study led by epidemiology PhD student Li Li.

A new study has found that about 35% of Americans with a cancer history had an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in the next decade, compared with about 23% of those who didn’t have cancer.