“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…
Keep Reading Internship hones practical experiences for MHA student
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…
Keep Reading COMPASS study seeks to measure community spread of COVID-19 in general population
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.
Keep Reading Six Tulane student groups awarded grants from Sprinting to the Front Lines
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,…
Keep Reading Interdisciplinary Tulane team competes in Johns Hopkins COVID-19 design challenge
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…
Keep Reading Tulane MD/MPH students provide support to DePaul Community Health Center during COVID-19