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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 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.

Scholar of the Month
Eric Jefferis
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
College of Public Health
2004-present

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, envir

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 o

Public health graduate students invested time this past summer in international health projects 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 research has examined teen drivers, metabolic syndr

Shaping the future of health care through building design is the aim of