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
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…
Keep Reading Kissinger to lead Faculty Affairs and Development; Battle joins as Online MPH DirectorThe Tulane MPH – Now Online!
STARTING THIS FALL, EARLY- TO MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS can go online to get the same high-quality, skills-based public health degree that the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine offers on campus. The program follows the competencies for the Master’s of Public Health degree in community health sciences, but is a school-wide degree, rather than department-based. The program is…
Keep Reading The Tulane MPH – Now Online!Tulane SPHTM Launches Public Health Film Festival
One of Dean LaVeist’s goals is to increase the school’s interaction with the community by hosting more public events in the Tidewater Building. In May the school took the first big leap in doing this by premiering the Public Health Film Festival of New Orleans. Over the course of three days, the festival shared a collection of ten powerful feature-length…
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Tulane University researchers across disciplines have played an important role in fighting infectious disease epidemics around the globe. That storied history has been brought to life in Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World, a new exhibit housed at Tulane SPHTM and co-sponsored by The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The exhibit covers a wide breadth of interdisciplinary research from…
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