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The SPHHS E-Newsletter - August 2020
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If you're anything like me, you're probably saying something to yourself along the lines of, "Wait, where did my summer go?" For many of us, the summer months "zoomed" by;
vacation plans went by the wayside; and we all struggled to keep up with our daily inbox.
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Dean Anna Maria Siega-Riz and SPHHS faculty, staff, and students welcome incoming first-year and transfer students to the School of Public Health and Health Sciences.
Watch the video
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Dean Anna Maria Siega-Riz and Associate Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies Katherine Reeves, along with faculty, staff, and students, welcome our incoming graduate
students. Watch the video
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Celebrating Faculty Excellence
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Associate Dean of Research Susan Hankinson has been named a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Professor of Nutrition Nancy Cohen is retiring on September 25, 2020, after serving as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the past 35 years.
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The School of Public Health and Health Sciences announced that 12 of its faculty have been granted tenure and/or promoted for fall 2020.
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Associate Professor Alicia Timme-Laragy has been selected to serve as a member of the Cancer Etiology Study Section for the Center for Scientific Review at the National
Institutes of Health.
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As part of a broader campus response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team of Laura Balzer, Andrew Lover, and James Peng have designed and will maintain the UMass Amherst COVID-19
Dashboard. Read more
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Nicholas Reich's COVID-19 Forecast Hub continues to issue weekly projections, four weeks out, for number of COVID-19 deaths nationally and by state.
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Our Commitment to Anti-Racism
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The School of Public Health and Health Sciences hosted on August 12, 2020 a webinar for faculty and staff entitled "A Call for Systematic, Anti-Racist
Change within SPHHS to Support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)." The webinar initiated a school-wide dialogue about structural racism, its effects on public health, and what faculty and staff can do to address structural racism in their labs,
classrooms, and communities. Read more
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The School of Public Health and Health Sciences and its partners in the Western Massachusetts Health Equity Network have announced a series of virtual conversations related
to racism as a public health crisis.
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Activist Loretta Ross leads a conversation on human rights and public health, reproductive health justice, and white supremacy, as part of the Health Equity Webinar Series.
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Student Voting During and After the Pandemic
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The Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University joined with other experts to issue a memorandum calling for colleges and universities to stand up for
student voting rights and outlining their recommendations. Read
the memo
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Public Health Sciences alumna Claire Moss '17 recently received the American Public Works Association New England Chapter Young Leader Award. Moss currently works as the
environmental manager for the Town of Wakefield, MA.
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We'd like to extend a warm welcome to Class of '24 members (top row, from left) Lizzie, Hailey, and Angeannie, and (bottom row, from left) Julian, McKenzie, Yusuf, and
Lizzy. We'd also like to welcome back all of our returning students this fall. We know this semester is unlike any other and appreciate you choosing the SPHHS. Go UMass!
Follow our new student photo tribute series on our
Facebook and
Instagram pages. Have a photo of your own that you'd like to share?
Tag us @umasssphhs or use the hashtag #umasssphhs.
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UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences
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Amherst, MA 01003
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