Announcements
Take Back the Night
This year, WVU will join hundreds of college campuses in holding a Take Back the Night event.
Special Elective Course Offered Spring 2020
The WVU School of Public Health is pleased to team up with the WVU College of Law to offer an exciting special elective in Global Health Law (PUBH 693D).
WVU-led study reveals uptick in suicide and fatal drug self-intoxication rates among blacks, Hispanics and women
To classify a death as a suicide, medical examiners and coroners rely on hard evidence, perhaps a suicide note or a gun near the body.
WVU in the News: Solutions to the opioid epidemic, according to its witnesses
West Virginia consistently ranks number one in state opioid-involved overdose death rates and opioid prescribing levels, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse — with about 81 opioid prescriptions per 100 persons and about 50 deaths per 100,000 people in 2017. Ohio comes in second at around 63 prescriptions and 39 deaths.
WVU in the News: Hepatitis C numbers soar in Kanawha following syringe exchange closure
A new case of hepatitis C was reported nearly every eight hours in Kanawha County last year.
WVCTSI Clinical Trials Center of Excellence opens at WVU
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – To help further cement its status as a top research institution, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute has announced the formation of the Clinical Trials Center of Excellence at West Virginia University.
2019 APHA annual meeting & expo, Philadelphia (Nov. 2-6)
The WVU School of Public Health is going to Philadelphia in November for the 2019 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo, the largest annual gathering of public health professionals, and hopes you'll be there, too.
Undergraduate student and SPH faculty research networking event
The School of Public Health is sponsoring a speed networking event on October 21 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in room G119B to provide an opportunity for interested undergraduate students to connect with SPH faculty engaged in research.
Cancer prevention expert to address cervical cancer in Appalachia, Nov. 1
Cervical cancer rates are higher among women in Appalachia due to a variety of factors ranging from health policy to biology. Next month, epidemiologist and cancer prevention researcher Electra Paskett, Ph.D., will visit the WVU Health Sciences Center to explain how these factors can help identify possible interventions to reverse this trend.
Dr. Otis Brawley will present the Annual Hardesty Lecture
Dr. Otis Brawley will present the Annual Hardesty Lecture Nov. 22 at 4 p.m. in the Erickson Alumni Center.