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Tulane public health faculty among first to receive federal funding for gun violence research after decades-long ban

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The National Institutes of Health awarded a $146,000 research grant to Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine to study how state gun laws may reduce homicide among women who are pregnant or have recently given birth. The school is among the first to receive federal funding for gun violence research after a nearly 24-year ban by Congress. Maeve…

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

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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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Two Tulane University Students Named as 2020 Albert Schweitzer Fellows

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After a competitive selection process, two Tulane University students, Caitlin Boyle from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Althea Alquitran from the School of Medicine, have been named as Albert Schweitzer Fellows along with four other local graduate students. The Fellows will be charged with improving the health of people most in need across New Orleans. During the coming…

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

K. Lane September 10, 2019 No Comments Gallery

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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Kissinger to lead Faculty Affairs and Development; Battle joins as Online MPH Director

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JUST BEFORE PRESS, Dean Thomas LaVeist made two more leadership announcements. First he named Dr. Patricia (Patty) Kissinger as associate dean for faculty affairs and development, effective August 1, 2019. This is a new position for the school and is designed to strengthen and expand faculty affairs at SPHTM. Kissinger earned her BS in nursing from Marquette University and both…

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