Announcements
New workshop addresses managing conflict in laboratories
A new workshop, hosted by the Office of Research and Graduate Education, will introduce basic concepts in relation to conflict in the lab and how to best identify it, manage and address it.
WVU researcher uses photography to analyze food access among rural seniors
Lauri Andress, an assistant professor in the West Virginia University School of Public Health, is working to disrupt the current model for how seniors in rural Appalachia access healthy food.
New study led by public health researcher finds ‘suicides by drugs’ profoundly undercounted in the United States
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate in the United States increased by 34 percent between 2000 and 2016. While that rate is high, a team of researchers led by SPH faculty member Ian Rockett believes it is seriously underestimated.
Abstract submission deadline extended for TRCCC Annual Meeting
The abstract submission deadline for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium has been extended to January 20. The WVU Cancer Institute is the organizing center of this year’s meeting titled Out of the Valley: Moving Mountains for the Immunotherapy of Cancer and scheduled for February 14-16, 2018, at Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Seven Springs, PA. Visit www.trccc.org for registration, abstract submission, and additional details.
Health Sciences Center conference rooms can now be scheduled in 25Live
For questions please contact a member of the staff at the following: https://facilitiesscheduling.wvu.edu/about-us/staff
Mindful Morsels: Mindful Eating- January 16, 2017, 11:00 am, John Jones C
Mindful Morsels is back for 2018. Mindful Eating will be held January 16, 2017, at 11:00 am in John Jones C.
Cancer Institute to sponsor talk on LGBTQI patient care
WVU Cancer Institute will sponsor a talk on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) patient care on January 9, 2018, from 12 to 1 p.m., in the Fukushima Auditorium. Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, associate center director, patient-centered initiatives and health equity for the George Washington Cancer Center, will present What You Should (and Want) to Know About Your LGBTQI Patients. Chapman’s personal mission is to make evidence-based cancer control strategies available to more people as quickly as possible.
WVU in the News: SPH Assistant Dean Brumage among recipients of "West Virginian of the Year" honor
Dr. Michael Brumage, assistant dean for public health practice and service, was selected as a West Virginian of the Year for his work battling the opioid epidemic. Brumage has received national recognition for his work in harm reduction and his dedication to fighting this "epidemic of epidemics."Brumage is among 5 recipients honored by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Other recipients include Dr. Rahul Gupta, the public health commissioner for West Virginia, and Huntington Fire Chief Jan Rader. Rader was also featured in the Netflix original documentary short "Heroin(e)", which the School of Public Health screened for the public in November 2017.
WVU nursing researcher intervenes between patients and loneliness
“Find Yourself First.” “Don’t Be in a Hurry.” “Stay Connected to Friends While You’re Young.” “Treat Loneliness as a Thief in the Night.” These are just some of the insights that participants in the Listen program wrote as news headlines during the final writing activity of the program’s pilot run.
City seeks volunteers for health and wellness commission
The Morgantown City Council is recruiting health professionals, educators, and people enthusiastic about healthy living to serve on the newly formed Health and Wellness Commission.