by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 30, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Bravo to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for reminding people of what they can due to prevent injuries and illness this summer! This is public health promotion (and hopefully prevention) at its best!! Copied from the West Kentucky Star’s...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 27, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Examples of Public Health
The Public Health Problem Some of our manufacturing and other processes contaminate soil with chemicals and other by-products. To motivate people to reduce or prevent soil pollution, we need evidence linking contaminates to negative impacts on health. Evidence is also...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 26, 2011 | 0 All, Professionals
Every once in awhile, I have to take advantage of the fact that my current school has wonderful people and projects that I can feature here! Today’s public health hero is a professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health who also happens to have...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 26, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Many different types of organizations and individuals (public and private) create YouTube videos, webcasts, podcasts, webinars, etc. on public health topics. You can learn something useful about a career field from real world efforts to share information and feature...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 24, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Osteoporosis is called the “silent disease” because it can go undetected until something happens, like a stress fracture. Another challenge for this disease, which affects about 10 million people (80% of whom are women), is that prevention is affected by...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 23, 2011 | 0 All
Even today, some people are cynical about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) responses to disasters. Some reactions reflect a general skepticism of the federal government; some reactions are in response to FEMA’s (many saw as...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 23, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Examples of Public Health
What is a ResBi, you ask? Starting today, I am taking a new approach to my posts about research. First, I am calling them Research Bites or ResBis for short. Similar to a sound bite, the idea is to use a relatively short amount of words to describe examples of public...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 19, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a great blog post about zombies and emergency preparedness. Honest to goodness! Check it!! Well played, CDC :). On a more serious note, this June, Montreal hosts the 3rd North American Congress of Epidemiology....
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 18, 2011 | 0 All, Degrees
Doctor of Public Health degrees (DrPH) are the Rodney Dangerfields of doctoral programs. They don’t get enough respect! Many people have never heard of them and if they have, they don’t understand the difference between a DrPH and a PhD. While you need to...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 18, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Enrichment Opportunities
Ok, not quite. That so very briefly said, we have to start our biostatistics somewhere. Why not summer camp?! Here is a summer mathematics program for high school students at the University of Utah. Students explore and learn math and have fun, a great way to have a...
