Photos of the six Global Health Fellows from left to right: Amrita Gill, Dr. Annie Glover, Rebecca Carter, Dr. Jacob Todd, Dr. Firoz Abdoel Wahid, and Arioene Vreedzaam.

Six Tulane affiliates named Global Health Fellows

Six fellows with connections to Tulane University have been named to the Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program of the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. The Global Health Fellows program is spread out across six different university consortia, and Tulane is part of the UJMT Consortium, administrated through the University of North Carolina. “Tulane is proud…

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Environmental Health Sciences students aid in emergency operations for Hurricane Laura

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine provides an excellent, skills-based education, but there’s nothing like hands-on experience to bring that education to life. Three environmental health sciences students recently got that hands-on experience as they each played a unique role in the New Orleans response to Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm that threatened the city before making landfall in western Louisiana.

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Pincus Family Foundation Partners with Tulane to Launch Violence Prevention Scholarship Program

THE PINCUS FAMILY FOUNDATION has awarded a $550,000 grant to Tulane University to create a new, interdisciplinary program that will train future leaders in community-focused violence prevention in New Orleans. The Pincus Family Foundation Violence Prevention Scholarship at Tulane University will bring faculty from the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute (VPI) and its network of community partners together to launch a…

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Dean LaVeist Says SPHTM To Play Vital Role in Campaign

THOMAS LAVEIST, the new dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is committed to advancing the legacy of the school he now helms and furthering its local and global mission. “The School of Public Health at Tulane is a venerable school within our field, and I take seriously the responsibility to be a steward of that legacy,”…

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