Fwd: UMass Amherst SPHHS September eNews

[Margot Malachowski]

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From: Patrick Freeman <pfre...@schoolph.umass.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:41 AM
Subject: UMass Amherst SPHHS September eNews
To: Patrick Freeman <pfre...@schoolph.umass.edu>

A new twist on tick surveillance, multimorbidity in nursing home residents, global health and health equity, and more in the SPHHS September eNews.

The SPHHS E-Newsletter - September 2020     Dean's Message One month into the semester and I am happy to report that our faculty and students are progressing nicely. In the school, we are delivering more than 400 courses remotely... Read more     Newsmakers     A New Twist on Public Health Tick Surveillance Infectious disease epidemiologist Andrew Lover has received an NIH grant to develop a new surveillance method to better identify specific locations with the highest risk for tick-borne disease transmission. Read more   de Oliveira to Study In-Kind Charitable Donations Interim chair of environmental health sciences Angela de Oliveira has received a two-year, $205,000 NSF grant to study the motives, beliefs, and behaviors behind in-kind charitable giving. Read more   Investigating Burdens of Multimorbidity in Nursing Home Residents Ning Zhang has received a two-year, $181,000 NIH grant to investigate the burdens of multimorbidity on hospitalization and mortality in nursing home residents with obesity. Read more   New Paper Continues Criticism of NAS Environmental Health Sciences' Edward Calabrese continues to question the legitimacy of the linear no-threshold model for risk assessment for ionizing radiation exposure as adopted by the EPA and others. Read more     In the Spotlight     Poudel Appointed Co-director of Institute for Global Health Health Promotion and Policy's Krishna Poudel has been appointed to serve as co-director of the UMass Amherst Institute for Global Health. Read more   Faculty Named ADVANCE 2020-21 Faculty Fellows Five SPHHS faculty members – Katherine Boyer, Lorraine Cordeiro, Kimberley Geissler, Sarah Poissant, and Laura  Vandenberg – are among the 39 selected as UMass ADVANCE Faculty Fellows. Read more   Evans Addresses Opioid Crisis in Pair of Talks Health Promotion and Policy's Elizabeth Evans will deliver a webinar on “A criminal justice-engaged research collaborative: Findings and lessons learned from Western Massachusetts” on October 14, 2020. Read more     Welcome New Faculty     SPHHS Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2020 The School of Public Health and Health Sciences welcomed five new tenure-track and six new non-tenure-track faculty members into its ranks this academic year. Read more     It's Weird But It Works       A team of SPHHS students working as contact tracers at the university's Public Health Promotion Center at the Mullins Center is featured in a new story on the UMass Amherst homepage. Read more     Upcoming Events     Oct. 1: Community Mobilization to End Tuberculosis in Cambodia Dr. Siyan Yi will deliver the second talk in the IGH 2020 Global Health Seminar Series. Read more   Oct. 5: For Faculty and Staff: Historic Roots of Structural Racism The SPHHS invites faculty and staff to the next webinar in its special seminar series featuring Mo Barbosa, Director of Community Engagement at Health Resources in Action. Read more   Oct. 14: SEIGMA Public Research Day The Social and Economic Impacts of Gambling in Massachusetts (SEIGMA) research team will examine “Springfield’s Two Years as a Casino Host Community: Looking Back and Looking Forward.” Read more   Oct. 19: Answering the Call in a Time of Pandemic Join alumni and friends for our UMass Amherst Homecoming showcase event "Answering the Call in a Time of Pandemic" hosted by Dean Anna Maria Siega-Riz. Read more   Oct. 21: Closing the Digital Divides and Achieving Digital Equity Alumnus Frank Robinson ‘94PhD and other speakers will discuss the digital divide as a public health crisis in our Health Equity webinar series. Read more   Oct. 28: Is It Time to Consider Using Human Rights Standards to Look at Health? Join us as we welcome activist Loretta Ross for the second of three conversations in our Health Equity webinar series. Read more     Announcements     Task Force Issues Final Report on MPH Curriculum Review The MPH Task Force has completed its review of the SPHHS core curriculum for its MPH degree programs and issued its final report. Read more     In the Media     • Boston Globe: UMass Model Sees State Coronavirus Death Tally Passing 9600 in Four Weeks (Nicholas Reich, Biostatistics and Epidemiology)   • Healthline: Everything to Know About the Health Features of the New Apple Watch (Amanda Paluch, Kinesiology)   • Georgia Health News: Ethylene Oxide: Tests Show Spike in Toxic Gas After Plant Reopened (Richard Peltier, Environmental Health Sciences)   • Washington Post: Scientists Want to Predict Covid-19’s Long-term Trajectory. Here’s Why They Can’t. (Nicholas Reich, Biostatistics and Epidemiology) • Boston Globe: A Pandemic Upends Life on University of Massachusetts' Nearly Empty Campus (Parker Sweet and Clement Boaheng, Health Promotion and Policy)     In Pictures     Public Health Promotion Center workers outside the Mullins Center at UMass Amherst. From left: Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing Sheila Pennell, student Parker Sweet, student Babatunde Olatinwo, center co-director Ann Becker, and student Isabella Caruso.   Are you following us on Instagram and Facebook? Have a photo of your own that you'd like to share? Tag us @umasssphhs or use the hashtag #umasssphhs.     UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences 715 N. Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003

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