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Newsflash: Dr. Chrissy Chard to be keynote speaker at summer PAL Academy

Christine Chard, PhD

Dr. Chrissy Chard, an associate professor in the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU and co-founder of Smart Fit Girls, Inc., will be the…

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Newsflash: Dr. Tracy Nelson named new director of ColoradoSPH at CSU

  Dr. Tracy Nelson, a professor in the CSU Department of Health and Exercise Science, has been named director of the Colorado School of Public…

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Ecuador research helps build partnerships and research opportunities

Cardiometabolic risk refers to an individual’s chances of having stroke, heart disease or diabetes. Some factors, like age and gender, increase a person’s cardiometabolic risk…

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First graduates complete dual-degree MPH/MSW program

For public health practitioners, the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work should feel extremely familiar. They include ensuring healthy development for all youth, ending homelessness,…

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Conference presentation guided by passion for global health

One of the first things Hillary Smith noticed about the Social Impact Pitch competition at Unite for Sight’s Global Health & Innovation Conference last month…

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Newsflash: Ecuador visit promotes public health partnerships

Dr. Lorann Stallones, director of the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU, visited Ecuador in March to work with Dr. Fadya Orozco of Universidad…

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Students put public health skills to practice completing capstone projects

It would be impossible to list everything students learn while completing their capstone projects, but here’s a start: Anna Rodriguez learned that it would be…

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MPH graduate pursues passion for childhood wellness in schools

Meghan Paulson understands how overworked schools are – how much is asked of students, teachers, staff and administrators. It can seem like there’s no end…

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Newsflash: Director recognized for service to ColoradoSPH at CSU

Dr. Lorann Stallones, left, and Dr. Jodie Hanzlik

Dr. Lorann Stallones, outgoing director of the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU, was recently recognized for her service to the school at an…

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Ecuador experience highlights importance of relationship building

One of the most valuable lessons of public health – but perhaps among the hardest to learn – is that change doesn’t happen in a…

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Traineeship addresses maternal and child health disparities

For Alyssa Thomas, the a-ha moment came in an undergraduate course on child health disparities. Health outcomes like preterm birth and obesity, she learned, generally…

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MPH students learn public health practice in Uganda

Isabella Mazariegos, right, working in Uganda

  At some point in a 20-minute nature walk that ended up being a 10-kilometer trek around Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi, Hillary Smith had a public…

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Experience and education lead to built environment role

For a long time, Liz Young was doing public health without realizing it. Teaching high school students about nutrition and healthy relationships, training kids in…

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Virtual reality technology translates to body positivity in body image research

Though Dr. Juyeon Park has devoted much of her professional research to studying how humans use technology – focusing more on the human aspects than…

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Capstone projects emphasize importance of using research results

Jackie Williamson arrived in Uganda’s Kasese District this summer with the goal of testing as many mothers as possible for hepatitis B virus (HBV). She…

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MPH students recognized for research at Graduate Student Showcase

  The pursuit of knowledge is not for the faint of heart. Just ask Grace Kuiper, whose research – recently presented at Colorado State University’s…

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Newsflash: Program director interviewed on The More You NoCo podcast

Dr. Lorann Stallones

Dr. Lorann Stallones, director of the ColoradoSPH at CSU, recently was interviewed about a variety of public health topics on The More You NoCo podcast….

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Newsflash: ColoradoSPH at CSU faculty member wins Franz Boas Award

Dr. Katherine Browne, a ColoradoSPH at CSU faculty member in the Global Health and Health Disparities concentration and a professor in the Department of Anthropology and…

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Newsflash: Professor’s research on e-cigarette use spotlighted in newspaper

Dr. Craig Trumbo, a professor in the Health Communication concentration at the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU and in the Department of Journalism…

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Relationship with preceptor enhances practicum experience

Suman Mathur’s door was always open. If Nichole Monhait had a question or an idea, if she just needed to talk something through, Suman was…

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Smart Fit Girls program impacts public health by helping girls learn confidence

What would happen, Dr. Chrissy Chard wondered, if women and girls cheered each other on? If they helped each other remember that how they look…

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MPH student teaches group fitness classes as complement to studies

It wasn’t going to be an easy class. Not that the participants in Sonia Chowdhury’s STRONG by Zumba class would have left if they’d known,…

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Capstone projects span breadth of public health practice, from bike lanes to food safety

While analyzing data use constraints at indigenous health facilities in Guyana, Amber Enyart had this insight: “If you don’t have proper information generated at the…

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Newsflash: Tracy Nelson receives Outstanding Engagement Award

Tracy Nelson, associate director of the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU, recently received the Outstanding Engagement Award from the College of Health and…

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Capstone research emphasizes importance of follow-up and communication

If there was one common thread among the myriad of projects that ColoradoSPH at CSU MPH students presented at the recent spring capstone forum, it’s…

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Friends finally meet at MPH orientation, after “knowing” each other for years

Jenni Averett and Denise Campbell

This is a story about public health and coincidence, and how something as simple as finding a place to sit can make all the difference….

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From pop-up veterinary hospitals to global disease outbreaks, MPH alum experiences myriad of public health practice

More than six months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Julie Lenoch was spaying a cat by the light of a headlamp. The area’s inconsistent…

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ColoradoSPH at CSU celebrates 10 years of innovation and collaboration

One of the primary mantras of public health is that there’s always something to do. Stop for too long and everything shifts: societies change, new…

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Student columnist communicates public health messages in newspaper

It isn’t just that bike helmets are a factor in public health and safety. It’s that one rainy evening last year, at the end of…

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Passion for communication technologies inspires conference presentation

Before Divya Chawla presented a poster at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas, she wrote a literature review…

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Newsflash: Shannon Hughes awarded grant for program working with mood-related distress

Shannon Hughes, assistant professor in Colorado State University’s School of Social Work and assistant professor in the Colorado School of Public Health, is advancing drug-free…

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MPH grad takes food bank to the community with mobile pantry

Call it the practical side of public health, or public health in action. The point is, those spaghetti squash weren’t going to move themselves. So,…

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MPH students highlight wide-ranging research at fall capstone forum

For Katherine Cooley, it was learning as a Peace Corps volunteer that 100 percent of Togo’s population is at risk for malaria. For Drew Faturos,…

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Newsflash: ColoradoSPH at CSU faculty receives NIH grant to study aging and activity

Manfred Diehl, a faculty member in the Physical Activity and Healthy Lifestyles concentration and a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies,…

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Hoffman Award recipients focus on addressing health disparities

Among Alyssa Thomas’ goals in her public health career is to work with childhood obesity. It’s not something she knows in abstract or from a…

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MPH research centers on bird flu impact in rural India

Before actually seeing the chickens pecking in the dirt outside brightly painted homes in rural eastern India, Anna Pollard and Kaitlin Dickson, both students in…

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Capstone Project Focuses on Maternal Needs in Weld County

Once Katie Key began looking at the participant data, some themes emerged. Among them was that moms needed help getting diapers. Huggies may not seem…

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