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Micah Berman and Mary Ellen Wewers

Tobacco 21 becomes law in Columbus with leadership from CPH faculty

Columbus recently passed a law known as Tobacco 21, which raised the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Ayaz Hyder, PhD

“Smart Foodsheds” project aims to improve food security in Columbus, Sacramento

A new NSF-funded project involving CPH assistant professor of environmental health sciences Ayaz Hyder, PhD, focuses on improving food security and community health through smarter regional food systems.

The winning team: Amber Moore, Maddie Drenkhan and Vikas Munjal, all in the final year of earning their Bachelor of Science in Public Health degrees.

Public health students take on Ohio community’s struggle with opioids in case competition

Teams of students presented their intervention strategies for opioid abuse in front of county health officials, CPH faculty and peers.

Jin Peng, MD, MS

Epi PhD candidate wins national award for dissertation on pediatric traumatic brain injury

Jin Peng, MD, MS, was honored for her dissertation research, “Caregiver-perceived Barriers to Return for Follow-up after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI),” which was funded in part by an Ohio Department of Safety (ODPS) EMS grant.

photo of the Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33). The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion and is approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth. Though difficult to see visually, it is one of the most identifiable nebulae because images of its swirling cloud of dark dust and gases bear remarkable resemblance to a horse's head when viewed from Earth.

G. Wyckliffe Hoffler ’68: From aerospace medicine to amateur astronomy