Topics: Public Health Sciences

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Strategy offers a better way to evaluate health interventions

Oct 31, 2018

When testing an intervention that is trying to modify health attitudes or behaviors – like a smoking cessation program – the Multiphase Optimization Strategy, or MOST, approaches the research process from a vantage point borrowed from the engineering world.

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Newly funded project to focus on health in rural Pennsylvania communities

Oct 12, 2018

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute has been awarded a $416,000 grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a pilot program to better understand the issues facing rural communities and address a decline in American life expectancy.

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Clinical and Translational Science Institute awards six pilot grants

Oct 3, 2018

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute is helping generate innovative health research ideas and promoting collaboration through the awarding of pilot grants in its Bridges to Translation IV program.

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Multi-campus collaboration tells story of cancer in central Pennsylvania

Sep 5, 2018

Penn State has launched its first cancer-related Story Map, “The Story of Cancer in Central Pennsylvania.” The interactive geospatial map illustrates the extent of the cancer problem in the region.

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Sept. 24 seminar to discuss community engagement in research

Aug 24, 2018

“Engaging the Community in Research” will be presented at the next Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Bench to Bedside and Beyond Seminar Series from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 24.

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Global Health Exchange students get up-close look at worldwide health challenges

Jul 26, 2018

Students from the Penn State Global Health Exchange Program met with representatives of the Wolf Administration to discuss the importance of public health in Pennsylvania.

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Study of Appalachian adults reveals a willingness to participate in biomedical research

Jul 3, 2018

Two Penn State College of Medicine researchers helped author "Predictors of Willingness to Participate in Biospecimen Donation and Biobanking among Appalachian Adults," which examined health disparities of Appalachian residents.

College of Medicine students get up-close look at global health challenges

Jun 20, 2018

Three graduate students from Penn State College of Medicine's Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health programs will spend a portion of their summer abroad as part of Penn State's Global Health Exchange Program. Additionally, as part of the two-way program, the College of Medicine will host 10 international students in July.

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College of Medicine, Rodale Institute partner to improve public health

Jun 15, 2018

Penn State College of Medicine and Rodale Institute have announced a partnership to connect food production with health care and to promote and improve public health.

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Burse promotes benefits of exercise to minority women diagnosed with cancer

Jun 6, 2018

Natasha Renee Burse, a graduate research assistant and doctor of public health (DrPH) student at Penn State College of Medicine, is working to improve outcomes for minority women diagnosed with cancer.

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