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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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…
Keep Reading Senior Associate Dean LuAnn White to step downMARKING THE OCCASION: For Dean Thomas LaVeist it was an experience like no other graduation he’s ever been a part of. He recorded the moment on stage with a class selfie including the 250 graduating students! In New Orleans, we don’t like to do anything the typical way, and graduation is no different. We believe commencement exercises should be fun,…
Keep Reading FESTIVE CONCLUSION: Graduation 2019CALLING ALL ALUMNI, but especially alumni from the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM)! This fall HPM will celebrate fifty fabulous years and their tremendous rise in the U.S. News rankings (from 22nd to 17th) with a very special weekend of homecoming events. The keynote of this special weekend will take place on Friday, November 1st at 1:00 p.m.…
Keep Reading Alumni Event: Celebrate Fifty Years and a Rise in the Rankings!ADNAN AL-MUFTI (MPH IHD ’00) is busy researching use of camel’s milk as an alternative medicinal therapy for use in treating infectious diseases. Dr. Mufti is looking into the immune response from the antibodies provided by camel’s milk. DAVID GAUS (MD/MPHTM ’92) is the subject of a new book called The Long Road from Quito by Tony Hiss. Gaus, called…
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