Visitors to national parks see pristine country—untouched landscapes disconnected from the germs and disease we fear in everyday urban living. But is it really so pristine? Doctoral candidate Laura Scott has spent the past six years finding out. Scott earned her Master of Science in epidemiology from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, with Dr. Susan Hassig…
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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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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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Reflects on 40-year career of disaster response, environmental data management, and the Dean’s Office Dr. LuAnn White, a professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine for forty years, will step down as senior associate dean effective June 30, 2021, in the first step of a phased retirement. During her tenure at the school, White has served…
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