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Kent State University’s Shanice Cheatham is one step closer to helping health care workers stop the spread of disease in underdeveloped countries. Cheatham took first place and won $4500 in the PITCH U elevator competition at the…
The Kent State University College of Public Health has received accreditation from the Board of Councilors of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The fiveyear span is the maximum term the college could have achieved as a…
The college takes enormous pride in the pioneering work of our faculty and students who are constantly creating, discovering and leading the discourse in their disciplines. Recent work has involved fostering health equity, local…
Kent State University’s College of Public Health was one of the partners recently honored by Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray with the Ohio Distinguished Law Enforcement Group Achievement Award for 2010. Kent State was recognized for…
Kent State researchers recently completed a pioneering office-based hand-hygiene improvement intervention which reduced common communicable illness by close to a third. This was the first U.S. pilot randomized cluster trial of its…
Scholar of the Month Eric Jefferis Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences College of Public Health 2004-present Eric Jefferis is an associate professor of social and behavioral sciences in the College of Public Health…
The Office of Public Health Practice and Partnerships (OPHPP) recently completed a survey of northeast Ohio local public health departments on workforce development. The survey, conducted among health commissioners,…
Ask Dean Sonia Alemagno to name her research passion, and you won’t wait a millisecond for the answer: substance abuse in society’s most vulnerable adolescents who are also at high risk for mental illness, homelessness and a host of…
