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How the pandemic inspired this Pitt student to pursue a career in public health

MPH student, Larisa Garza Chapa, discusses what led her to pursue a degree in public health. 

Dzau awarded prestigious Porter Prize

Alumni honored by Pitt Public Health at awards ceremony

The University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health recognizes six alumni for their outstanding service to the field of public health.

Alcohol use rises in states where marijuana is legalized

HPM's Coleman Drake discusses how cannabis use appears to increase the probability that people drink in the years after legalization. 

Public Health in Practice

Countywide Project Helps Communities to Flourish

Disparities in COVID-19 vaccine equity persist, though the situation has improved

Healio -  Jean Nachega explains that these data show that vaccine access inequity is still a reality, especially in low- and middle-income countries, though the situation at least in terms of COVID-19 vaccines has somewhat improved. 
 

Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth Often Avoid Medical Care After Negative Experience with Health Care Providers

BCHS graduate Taylor Boyer's recent study focuses on transgender and gender diverse youth. 

US overdose deaths may be peaking, but experts are wary

Former Dean, Dr. Donald Burke, was one of the authors of the carfentanil paper

A Half Century-Long Journey

50 years of Pitt’s Genetic Counseling Program…and counting

Study Yields Insights for Boosting Early Intervention of Climate-Related Health Risks

Dean Maureen Lichtveld shares key climate change and public health interventions in her recent Lancet article
 

Pitt’s Healthy Home Lab Receives Funding to Make Homes Safer for Older Adults

UPMC-Pitt is one of seven institutions to receive a portion of a $5.7 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. 

How cancer cells can become immortal – new research finds a mutated gene that helps melanoma defeat the normal limits on repeated replication

A defining characteristic of cancer cells is their immortality. Cancer cells, however, can overcome this limitation to form tumors and bypass “mortality” by continuing to replicate.

SPH hits the trifecta!

Three faculty members ranked in a global list of top women scientists.

8 billion people: Four ways climate change and population growth combine to threaten public health, with global consequences

In Dean Lichtveld's 40-year career she has encountered many public health threats, but none so intransigent and pervasive as climate change.

Lewis Kuller, longtime chair of epidemiology at Pitt, dies at 88

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle- Lewis H. Kuller, who built a world-class Department of Epidemiology, which he chaired for 30 years, has died.