Announcements
WVU Public Health faculty member provides healthcare leadership to global audience
With a global reach of more than 40 countries in one year, a WVU Public Health expert is helping fight childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases through healthcare leadership training.
Volunteers needed for county disaster preparedness drill
Volunteers Needed to Assist with Monongalia County Disaster Preparedness Drill from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.on Wednesday, May 29.
WVU graduate student summit to be held June 4
Drs. Laura Gibson and Lisa Salati invite all HSC graduate students to share their feedback about graduate life on the Health Sciences Campus while enjoying great food! The Graduate Student Summit wil be on June 4, 2019, from 4-6 pm at the Erickson Alumni Center.
Relive 2019 graduation celebration through pictures and video
Relive the memories of the WVU School of Public Health's 2019 Commencement ceremony! Visit the SPH Facebook page for candid photos and a video recap of the day. Check out the stories of a few of our highlighted graduates. And don't forget to keep in touch! All Public Health graduates are encouraged to share their story with us online. Tell us where your degree takes you!
WV AWARE seeking stakeholder input on domestic violence in healthcare
Danielle Davidov (WVU School of Public Health), Laurie Thompsen (WV Coalition Against Domestic Violence), and Elizabeth Cox (University of Wisconsin-Madison) would like to invite WVU School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students to attend WV AWARE’s 3rd Annual Stakeholder Forum.
HSC-SPH Health affairs welcomes new database administrator
Divya Gadde, MS, B.D.S, has joined HSC-SPH Health Affairs team as a database administrator. Divya will provide SPH faculty and students with health data analytics support, specifically as it relates to WV Medicaid claims data and other data sets shared by the state with SPH. Her expertise in biostatistics will be a great asset as she assumes the role of Honest Broker and supports increased research on state-based data.
WVU's award-winning Delta Omega chapter highlighted in national webinar
The WVU School of Public Health's Gamma Mu Chapter of the Delta Omega honorary society recently presented their strategies for innovation for success in a webinar hosted by the national organization. The Gamma Mu chapter was selected for the webinar spotlight after being named Chapter of the Year for the sixth consecutive year in October 2018. Watch the webinar online.
WVU in the News: WV native, incoming AMA president keynotes at Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation event
Dr. Patrice Harris was a third-year medical student working her first clinical rotation at Charleston Area Medical Center General Division when she had what she described Tuesday as the first life-altering experience of her medical career.
Student in Guo Laboratory Awarded Prestigious Travel Award
Salvi Singh an MS student in Computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at WVU who works in the Laboratory of Dr. Lan Guo, as a Research Assistant was awarded the NSF Travel Award for her presentation at the 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2018). The title of her presentation was: Genet-CNV: Boolean Implication Networks for Modelling Genome-Wide Co-occurrence of DNA Copy Number Variations: Ms. Singh, working with her mentor Lan Guo, Ph.D. uses an algorithm to detect DNA copy number variation networks that may be important for lung cancers. Her current research focuses on identifying genes that may be drivers in lung cancer initiation and metastasis.