Commending students, faculty, staff and alumni for their resilience, resourcefulness and efforts to help others, Dean Amy Fairchild reflected on the triumphs and struggles of the past year and looked toward the future in her 2021 State of the College address.

Second-year Master of Public Health student Vanora Davila — like millions of other students — is all too familiar with how daunting it can be to pay for college.

But that didn’t stop her from pursuing her dreams in public health.

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.

Israel has earned global attention for its accelerated COVID-19 vaccine distribution — with nearly half the nation's population having received the first vaccine dose as of mid-February.

On Feb. 16, the College of Public Health hosted Israeli public health expert Dr. Nadav Davidovitch of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for a virtual conversation about his country’s vaccine successes and challenges — and what lessons the U.S. can take away.

Though Ohio never formally enacted a so-called “heartbeat bill” banning abortions after six weeks of gestation, legislative and legal actions appear to have fueled beliefs that abortion is illegal in the state, a new study has found.

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.

Lauren Hackenberg, a fourth-year undergraduate student specializing in public health sociology, plans to pursue a career in health care administration before attending graduate school. She hopes to one day contribute to health policy that increases access to affordable, quality health care.

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.