Dr. David Hotchkiss, who has served as interim chair of the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences (GCHB) over the past year, has been named chair of the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development (IHSD). This new role will go into effect on July 1, 2021...
(This message originally ran on June 02, 2020) Dear SPHTM Community, I’m deeply saddened as I know all of you are over the senseless killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. I wish his death was an outlier, an aberration, an unusual event. But we all know that is not the case. I’ve spent my career...
COVID-19 has perpetuated suffering around the world for more than a year, with countries like India, Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey currently seeing a rapid rise in cases. But these countries are not the only ones suffering at the moment. A humanitarian crisis of an entirely different kind is...
PhD candidate Laura Scott traveled to 13 different national parks to study antibiotic resistant bacteria in the soil and water. Her degree will be in Environmental Health Sciences from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) The pursuit of a doctoral...
Margaret Conrad and Amna Ashraf, who are graduating with the Class of 2021, are recipients of the Jim Runsdorf Excellence in Public Service Student Award, given by the Center for Public Service. (Photo by Rusty Costanza) The Center for Public Service (CPS) announced that Amna Ashraf and Margaret...
