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Internship hones practical experiences for MHA student

“There’s no program without the faculty,” says, Daniel Triggs, a student in the Master of Health Administration Program at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It was Program Director Emily Harris who encouraged him to apply for a competitive summer internship program with the National Association of Health Service Executives. He was not yet eligible to do…

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Andrew Poland of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine sets up a testing tent for the COMPASS Study at the Salvation Army Family Store on Jefferson Highway.

COMPASS study seeks to measure community spread of COVID-19 in general population

Researchers from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the School of Medicine will be in randomly selected public locations around Orleans and Jefferson parishes during the next three months for the nationwide COMPASS Study – Community Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Study (CoVPN 5002). On Jan. 28, they were at the Salvation Army Family Store on Jefferson Highway. Professor…

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Using everything from art to delivering food and groceries these six Tulane student groups are rushing in to provide support for the New Orleans Community during COVID-19 (Photos by David Roston and NhuNgoc Pham)

Six Tulane student groups awarded grants from Sprinting to the Front Lines

Sprinting to the Front Lines is a rapid funding mechanism for Tulane students to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Teams of current Tulane students were invited to submit a proposal that would directly impact the health and wellbeing of the New Orleans community during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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The Tulane team in the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Design Challenge (listed from left to right and from top to bottom): Jesenia Angeles, Tonye Fohsta-Lynch, Heather Larkin, Stephanie Guzman, Ayan Ali and Quinn Hill.

Interdisciplinary Tulane team competes in Johns Hopkins COVID-19 design challenge

A team of Tulane University students from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the School of Medicine was accepted into the international John Hopkins Center for Bioengineering and Design COVID-19 Design Challenge, one of only 200 teams. Tonye Fohsta-Lynch, a School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine graduate student in maternal and child health, contacted Alessandra Bazzano,…

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Tulane MD/MPH students provide support to DePaul Community Health Center during COVID-19

This spring the Tulane MD/MPH Program placed and supported several students in COVID response projects at the DePaul Community Health Center. Mark Dal Corso, MD, MPH, associate professor of global community health and behavioral sciences at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a pediatrician at DePaul Community Health Center serves as the faculty director for the MD/MPH…

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