Fred Palmer might seem like an ordinary graduate student, but he wears many different hats in his community. He is a substance use counselor, advocate…
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What is public health? Some people may say it’s the prevention and management of infectious diseases, others might say it has to do with pollution,…
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The Colorado State University Graduate Showcase is a one-day conference for students to present their research, work and talents, and to connect with other graduate…
Full ArticleFaire Holliday is a Colorado School of Public Health at CSU alumni, and her concentration was in Global Health and Health Disparities. Before pursuing a…
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Samantha Loh is a second-year MPH student in the epidemiology concentration at Colorado State University. Her favorite course, which confirmed that she had made the…
Full ArticleDuring the first day of the fall 2019 semester, Dr. Molly Gutilla asked her students in her Epidemiology for Public Health class to introduce themselves….
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Each year the Public Health in the Rockies Conference provides an opportunity for education, networking and skill development for public health professionals in Colorado and neighboring…
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Colorado State University welcomed the Dean of the Colorado School of Public Health, Jonathan Samet, MD, MS, who visited Dr. Molly Gutilla’s SAS Database Design…
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Discovering Public Health Isabella Mazariegos’ first experience in public health was when she was in high school. She volunteered for Helps International, an organization similar…
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Brittney Sly earned her MPH in global health and health disparities from the Colorado School of Public Health and is now a doctoral student in the…
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Within each of the Master of Public Health concentrations at Colorado State University, students complete a capstone project which allows them to apply their learnings…
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MPH graduate Jill Matlock was drawn to public health because she enjoyed the community and all-encompassing aspect of the field and wanted to play a…
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Last summer, Amanda Tyler lived and worked in a rural village in Uganda. She was there for 2 months while doing her practicum with the…
Full ArticleCarolina Mariano Ferraz had her first experience with foodborne health risks in her home country of Brazil. There she worked as a food safety apprentice…
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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…
Full ArticleDr. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Full ArticleThe 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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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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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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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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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…
Full ArticleWhat 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
Full ArticleManfred Diehl, a faculty member in the Physical Activity and Healthy Lifestyles concentration and a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies,…
Full ArticleAmong 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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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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