SPHHS faculty, graduate students present at APHA meeting
Several faculty and graduate students from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences made presentations at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association held Nov. 5-11 in Philadelphia.
Tameka L. Gillum, assistant professor Community Health Education, spoke on “An examination of dating violence among sexual minority youth.”
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, assistant professor of Health Policy Management, made presentations on the “Impact of the Waxman-Hatch Act of 1984 on Generic Competition in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Market” and, with graduate student Hong Zhang, “Ethnic and racial disparities in overweight and obesity related co-morbidities in Massachusetts.”
Senior lecturer Dan Gerber of Community Health Education discussed “A New Undergraduate Major in Public Health and the Importance of Experiential Learning in the Program.”
Assistant professor Aline Gubrium, also of Community Health Education, spoke on “Let’s talk about sex: Learning from the voices of Latino/a youth.”
Nancy Cohen, head of the Nutrition Department, presented “Development of an Interactive Online Master’s of Public Health in Nutrition Degree Program.”
Lorraine Cordeiro, assistant professor of Nutrition, spoke on “A descriptive study of undernutrition, gender and sexual maturation among adolescents in Kilosa District, Tanzania.”
Public Health graduate student Corey H. Brouse gave a presentation on “Exposure to Risk and
Susceptibility to Skin Cancer in a Sample of College Students.”
November 20, 2009.
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