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Category: health policies
Graduate Spotlight: Maria Isabel Roldos
HPAM Dr.P.H. student, Isabel Roldos, has been featured as a student spotlight on the UGA Graduate School’s website as a result of her outstanding research involving women’s human rights and health. Please click here to read more.
UGA College of Public Health to conduct Information Day
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia College of Public Health will hold “Information Day” on March 4, at 2 p.m. in the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences.This open house will highlight all of the academic units in public health and focus on graduate level programs. The public is invited to attend this informational event. read more
Society may be willing to pay a high price to prevent child abuse and neglect, study suggests
Writer: Kirk McAlpin, 706/542-8078, kmm3@uga.edu Contact: Phaedra Corso, 706/583-8926, pcorso@uga.edu Feb 18, 2011, 13:23 Athens, Ga. – The amount the public will pay to prevent the death of a child may be twice that of an adult, according to a new University of Georgia study that asked 199 individuals how much they would pay to prevent a death from child abuse or neglect. read more
UGA College of Public Health receives training grant
The University of Georgia College of Public Health is the recipient of a five year $3,193,000 award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Georgia Public Health Training Center (PHTC) to improve the state’s public health system by enhancing skills of the current and future public health workforce. read more
Anti-poverty group forms Athens Health Network seeking federal funds
The anti-poverty group OneAthens is going after federal grants to create a system allowing doctors to save time and money by sharing patients’ medical information electronically. Paul Boumbulian, a health care expert the University of Georgia hired last year to follow through on OneAthens’ plan to improve local health care for the uninsured and underinsured, is talking to Morehouse College, where he once taught, about setting up the system. “We do not have a system in Athens-Clarke County that connects everybody,” Boumbulian said. read more