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State Policies Aimed at Stopping the “Silent Disease”
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 what we do in...
Join Disaster Management Efforts and Make a Real Difference
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 inadequate) responses in...
ResBis to the “I Don’t Really Understand This Research” Rescue!
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...
Heard the One about the Zombie and the Epidemiologist in Congress?
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. "The...
DrPHs Get No(t enough) Respect!
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 carefully...
Biostatistics Camp? 4Real? 4Real?
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...