UK College of Public Health alumna, April Harris, MPH, CHES, has been honored by her colleagues as an innovative Quality Improvement practitioner. The Innovative Quality Improvement Practitioner honor recognizes individuals who have championed a Quality Improvement (QI) effort and culture in their public health practice.
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Posted: July 30, 2014
The Smoke-Free Kentucky Coalition, which is taking a week-long bus tour across the state, made a stop at the UK Markey Cancer Center on July 30th as part of its effort to promote better health for Kentuckians through smoke-free policies.
Posted: July 29, 2014
The University of Kentucky hosted the Kentucky Summit on Childhood Obesity and Physical Activity on July 30, 2014. The Summit, which involved the UK Colleges of Education, Public Health, and Agriculture, focused on the relationship between childhood health - in particular, nutrition and physical activity - and academic success.
Posted: July 23, 2014
Julia Costich, PhD, JD, Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the UK College of Public Health, will represent the University and the Commonwealth at a forum at the National Press Club in August, discussing the ways states in the South have implemented the Affordable Care Act.
Posted: July 22, 2014
Biostatistics Professor, David Fardo, and his colleague, Dr. Peter T. Nelson of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), received the 2014 Asao Hirano Prize for best paper on neurodegenerative disease. The award, given by the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP), was presented to Dr. Fardo and Dr. Nelson at the Association's annual conference in Portland, Oregon, in June.
Posted: July 17, 2014
Alumnus, Lazarus Eze, MPH, is bringing public health programming to the air waves of Nigeria with a new radio program in the capital city of Abuja.
Posted: July 16, 2014
UK College of Public Health faculty member, Douglas Scutchfield, MD, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Public Health for a three-year term.
Posted: July 14, 2014
UK College of Public Health Alumna, Georgia Heise, DrPH, began her term as President of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) at the organization's annual meeting this month. Dr. Heise, who received her DrPH from the UK College of Public Health, is Director of Three Rivers Health District Health Department in Owenton, Kentucky. Additionally, UK alumna, Swannie Jett, DrPH, MSc, who is a Health Officer for the Florida Department of Health, will serve as President-Elect.
Posted: July 14, 2014
UK College of Public Health Professor and Director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen Mays, speaks on Capitol Hill concerning changes in the delivery and financing of public health services across the country.
Posted: July 9, 2014
The University of Kentucky Rural Cancer Prevention Center (RCPC), housed at the College of Public Health, has received $3.75 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to promote colorectal cancer screening in Central Appalachia. The UK RCPC is one of just 26 CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers (PRC) in the country, and the only one focused on developing and disseminating strategies for rural cancer prevention.