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.
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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.
Posted: June 24, 2014
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare are building upon their history of collaboration to expand research and educational collaborations between the two institutions, with the goal of improving health and health care for all Kentuckians.
Posted: June 19, 2014
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH, pronounced "birch"), a mentored career development program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports junior investigators with training and protected research time to overcome challenges and excel early in their careers, while simultaneously advancing an area of research priority: women's health and sex differences.
Posted: June 16, 2014
The University of Kentucky has received a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue its work to better understand and minimize negative health and environmental impacts from hazardous waste sites.