The latest Arnold School project to learn from and address impacts of COVID-19 comes in the form of a $3 million U01 grant to investigate the effects of telehealth on disparities in maternal care during the pandemic.
Doctoral student pursues Ph.D. in Biostatistics to lend his mathematical talent to advancing public health. His passion for correlated data led him to UofSC, and his future plans include working to improve drug development/discovery.
The five-year study is supported by a $5.8 million U01 grant from the National Cancer Institute and focuses on preventing colorectal cancer in obese parent-child dyads, particularly those in the African American community.
Nkechi Okpara, a fourth-year doctoral Candidate in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, has been selected to receive the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation's Commission on Dietetic Registration Doctoral Scholarship.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded more than $400K to health services policy and management assistant professor Chen Liang as part of the Long COVID Computational Challenge.
Lídia Gual Gonzalez, a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. in Epidemiology program, has been selected to receive the John Henry Comstock Award from the Entomological Society of America's International Branch.
Thanks to a $13.2 million grant from the NIH Common Fund, epidemiology professor Angela Liese and nursing professor Coretta Jenerette will collaborate to launch the FIRST program at UofSC.
The new MPH program is not only online, it is 100 percent asynchronous to fit into the busy lives of participants. Students can enroll full-time or part-time, completing the program in as little as two years.
The study, which was published in the Journal of American College Health, found that negative impacts on physical activity, sedentary time and anxiety persisted for this population for at least a year into the pandemic.
Researchers have shown that their theory-based lifestyle intervention is effective in helping women with elevated weight reduce the amount of gestational weight gain they retain after birth.
As the business manager for the Department of Environmental Health Sciences (ENHS), Destine Rivers puts her accounting degree to good use. In 2020, she joined ENHS as the business manager not only for the department but also for two major centers.
Researchers from the Department of Health Services Policy and Management have examined whether Medicaid eligibility expansion is associated with changes in emergency department visits based on medical urgency.