School of Public Health Dean Thomas LaVeist, PhD is lending his vast expertise to the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force as co-chair. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the creation of the task force in April saying, “We know that right now 70 percent of our deaths in Louisiana from...
Brigham Walker is a research assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The cost of cancer care is rapidly increasing. The National Institutes of Health estimates the yearly cost of treating the disease...
David Hotchkiss (photo above) will serve as interim chair in advance of the transition Effective July 1, 2021, the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences (GCHB) will be divided into two departments to better serve students and better align the teaching faculty. The two new...
Photos of the six Global Health Fellows from left to right: Amrita Gill, Dr. Annie Glover, Rebecca Carter, Dr. Jacob Todd, Dr. Firoz Abdoel Wahid, and Arioene Vreedzaam. Six fellows with connections to Tulane University have been named to the Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program of the...
An independent study found that Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is one of the top schools in the nation for producing senior academic administrators who in turn influence today's public health workforce. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) Tulane University is ranked as...
